A Cornell professor designed a room-size network of sensors that represented a single neuron. He claimed it would grow wiser ...

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While there’s a lot of enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) in the air, you’re in good company if you’re worried about the ethical ramifications of the AI boom. Dr. Robert MacAuslan In ...

As meaning-makers, we use spoken or signed language to understand our experiences in the world around us. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT (using large language ...

In the wild, parrots squeak, squawk, whistle and trill to communicate with their flockmates. These highly social birds rely on their complex communication systems to get food and warn of potential ...

AI is reshaping countless aspects of life. But so far, its applications have focused mostly on our singular species, Homo sapiens. What if humans used AI to better understand the nonhuman beings with ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a famous horse named Clever Hans toured Germany. The horse stunned crowds as his trainer demonstrated the animal's alleged ability to understand German, tell time and ...

Let's try to understand this field called behavioral design or, in other words–the architecture of choice. Lately, there has been quite a bit of buzz around the subject of "behavioral design" and ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

How did this happen? That’s the question every Democrat should be asking today, following former President Donald Trump’s resounding defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris. And to answer it, I’ve got ...

SIGN UP for Plaintext and tap Steven's unique insights and unmatched contacts for the long view on tech. I’ve gotten to know Kosinski through my writing about Meta, and I reconnected with him to ...

Throughout history, humans have given a lot of thought to death. We’ve grappled with our mortality, created elaborate burial rituals, and contemplated how best to mourn the loss of a loved one. But ...