Will AI surpass our natural intelligence in the future? Maybe. Rather than focussing on gloom or glory we must upgrade our ability to see and address the real risks of a hybrid era ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes—and that such ...

Why are we drawn to the ruthless pragmatism of a character like Tywin Lannister, or the rule-breaking arrogance of Tony Stark? In popular culture, the era of the pure, unwavering hero has largely ...

These are the best space opera movies of all time. For the purpose of this list, we'll be sticking to one film per franchise ...

In a bid to treat blindness, Life Biosciences will try out potent cellular reprogramming technology on volunteers. When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging ...

Abstract: Although data-driven methods have achieved success in 3D human pose estimation, they often suffer from domain gaps and exhibit limited generalization. In contrast, optimization-based methods ...

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...

AI creativity can be tuned, but it has limits. Adjusting settings helps, yet no current model matches the originality of highly creative people. AI can outperform the average person on a standard ...

One day, probably far off in the very distant future, if astronomers are correct in their assumptions about the vastness of space, Earth will be visited by intelligent beings from another planet.

If humans ever receive a message from intelligent aliens, the biggest challenge may not be how far away they are, but how to communicate at all. Our nearest star system is more than four light-years ...