Three Invaluable Ways AI and Neuroscience Are Driving Each Other Forward. DeepMind's Demis Hassabis once pointed to the human brain as a paramount inspiration for building AI with human-like intelligence. He's not the only one. The meteoric success of dee

Watch China's New Hybrid AI Chip Power an Autonomous Bike. When I lived in Beijing back in the 90s, a man walking his bike was nothing to look at. But today, I did a serious double-take at a video of a bike walking his man. No kidding. The bike itself loo

Why Companies and Armies Are Hiring Science Fiction Writers. Are you a science fiction writer? Do you have command of the French language? If you can answer yes to both questions, a new job opportunity may be just the thing for you. The recently formed Fr

Where Death Ends and Cyborgs Begin, With Futurist Zoltan Istvan. Transhumanism is a growing movement but also one of the most controversial. Though there are many varying offshoots within the movement, the general core idea is the same: evolve and enhance

The Newest Way to Go Green? Retrofit Your Old Car to Make It Electric. Thanks to a rapid decline in lithium-ion battery prices and increases in their energy storage density, we're headed into the age of the electric car. So much so that some nations, incl

What 'Chernobyl' Can Teach Us About Failure. I've been watching the outstanding HBO series Chernobyl, which details the worst nuclear reactor meltdown in human history--an event that was approximately 400 times more potent than the atomic bomb dro...

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What If We Visualized Humanity's Future in Millennia Instead of Centuries? "Where do you see yourself in five years?" It's a classic job interview question, designed to probe your level of ambition and aspiration. And it probes about as far ahead as many

What If We Visualized Humanity's Future in Millennia Instead of Centuries? "Where do you see yourself in five years?" It's a classic job interview question, designed to probe your level of ambition and aspiration. And it probes about as far ahead as many

Moving Beyond Mind-Controlled Limbs to Prosthetics That Can Actually 'Feel'. Brain-machine interface enthusiasts often gush about "closing the loop." It's for good reason. On the implant level, it means engineering smarter probes that only activate when t