The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has seen massive advancements in recent years, most notably pertaining to technologies that replicate the workings of the human brain. Referred to as artificial neutral network (ANN), this kind of AI system makes use of algorithms that can in turn be trained to process information, such as speech or…
Technological advancements in recent years has unlocked a sea of startling possibilities, including the much-dreaded ability to read people's minds. As part of a recent research, scientists from the University of Oregon have built an ingenious system that, they claim, can read your thoughts and memories through brain scans, putting the information on screen for…
Experiencing writer’s block? You might want to take the help of artificial intelligence. Developed by scientists in Japan, a super-smart AI robot recently authored a short story, with some assistance from humans. What is more, the work has made it through the initial stages of screening, as part of a literary competition. (more…)
Death, as we all know, is inevitable. But what Josh Bocanegra-founded Humai is trying to do is probably the closest we’d ever get to being immortal. The company has quite ambitiously claimed that, within the next 30 years, it will have developed a technology that can effectively transfer the consciousness of dead people into artificially-created…
While our recent times and evolving technologies have tended to stoke the debate concerning the rise of AI, most of it has to do with the 'intelligence' (or capability) intrinsic to the machine. But how does the progressing AI measure up to actual human intelligence? Well a team of scientists from University of Illinois (at…