Half a century ago, a philosopher imagined a world where we could fulfil our desires through digital simulations. He argued we'd prefer reality, but was he right? In a pivotal scene in the movie The ...

One particularly striking story arrived earlier this year: a paper that described how an LLM had passed the Turing Test, an ...

In 2007, Christoph Bartneck, a robotics professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, decided to stage an experiment loosely based on the famous (and infamous) Milgram obedience study. In ...

It turns out there’s a fatal flaw in most companies’ approach to machine learning, the analytical tool of the future: 87% of projects do not get past the experiment phase and so never make it into ...

It’s…sort of right? But the winning map of electoral preferences produced by Algorithmia’s DanKu experiment was in service of a larger question. (Algorithmia ...