Skeptophilia

The science fiction trope of a sentient AI turning on the humans, either through some sort of misguided interpretation of its own programmin...

One of the coolest (and most misunderstood) parts of science is the use of models . A model is an artificially-created system that acts like...

Earlier this week, I dealt with the rather unsettling idea that when AI software capabilities improve just a little more, we may be able to ...