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One of the very first topics I addressed here at Skeptophilia  -- only a few months after I started, in fall of 2010 -- was the idea of the...

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could , they didn't stop to think if they should ." That quote f...

As we get closer and closer to something that is unequivocally an artificial intelligence, engineers have tackled another aspect of this; ho...

When  The Polar Express  hit the theaters in 2004, it had a rather unexpected effect on some young movie-goers. The train conductor, who (...

The old quip says that true artificial intelligence is twenty years in the future -- and always will be. I'm beginning to wonder about...

I am absolutely fascinated by the idea of artificial intelligence. Now, let me be up front that I don't know the first thing about the...

Today in the news is a story about the creation of a robot named "Kaspar" at the University of Hertfordshire, whose purpose is to ...