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Vernor Vinge, influential sci-fi author who warned of AI ‘Singularity,’ has died
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoVernor Vinge is one of the first thinkers to popularize a technological Singularity. Vernor Vinge,...
In the search for alien life, should we be looking for artificial intelligence?
Space via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRobot hand close to touching a human hand. Is biological life common in the universe, or should we...
Worried About Sentient AI? Consider the Octopus
Time via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA two-month-old octopus tries to unscrew the lid of a jar to get hold of its content, a crab, at Denmark's Aquarium in Copenhagen in 2004. Credit -...
Ed Yong’s “An Immense World” Probes What We Can Learn from the Creatures Around Us
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThroughout the dark days of our pandemic, readers have turned to The Atlantic’s Ed Yong for his...
Opinion: 25 years later, ‘The Matrix’ is less sci-fi than tech reality
CNN via Yahoo News· 2 months agoRizwan Virk writes that the movie has remained relevant partly due to its core question, which is...
Column: What a utopian experiment in government by computer can teach us about building a humane...
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoFifty years ago, a violent coup cut short one of the boldest tech experiments in history: the...