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Sentient machines are a greater threat to humanity than climate change, according to Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom

This cell database serves as a first step toward a full-scale understanding of the brain.

Facebook and Google are trying to create artificial intelligence that mimics the human brain. First, they need to figure out how our own minds work

One of the world's most advanced social robots visited our office recently for a candid conversation

Why computers aren't close to being ready to supplant human artists.

Computer algorithms and artificial intelligence programs are fast approaching the level of humans in music composition, and AI researchers say they computers have immense capacity for creativity. But what does computer-authored music sound like? Why do it? And how is it changing music creation?

"The animal kingdom is often portrayed as a simpler world, free from the complications of man. But, as scientists have learned time and time again, all is not as it seems. Animals are anything but simple and we have much to learn from them."

Gain and contribute opinions and insight regarding the future of humanity in a forthcoming shift in knowledge distribution during the age of A.I.

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(Phys.org)-Decision making in an enormous range of tasks involves the accumulation of evidence in support of different hypotheses. One of the enduring models of evidence accumulation is the Markov random walk (MRW) theory, which assigns a probability to each hypothesis. In an MRW model of decision making, when deciding between two hypotheses, the cumulative evidence for and against each hypothesis reaches different levels at different times, moving particle-like from state to state and only occupying a single definite evidence level at any given point.

Reading out 100 words per minute from the brain? Yes, Facebook knows it's ambitious

Neural interfaces and prosthetics will do away with biology's failings