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Ray Kurzweil: Technology will let us fully realize our humanity

What will the next leap look like? One of the first shifts will be in learning. From the ancient Greeks through the Enlightenment, education’s primary goal was to nourish the mind and... Read more »

What will AI mean for economic inequality?

What does this have to do with AI? AI development is concentrated in the aging countries, and thus it will follow the path set by the realities, needs, and incentives in those... Read more »

A skeptic’s guide to humanoid-robot videos

But what really makes it feel like humanoid summer is the videos. Seemingly every month brings a new moody, futuristic video featuring a humanoid staring intensely (or unnervingly) into the camera, jumping... Read more »

Readying business for the age of AI

AI across industries There is no shortage of AI use cases across sectors. Retailers are tailoring shopping experiences to individual preferences by leveraging customer behavior data and advanced machine learning models. Traditional... Read more »

Inside the long quest to advance Chinese writing technology

Some felt these things were connected. Wang Zhao, for one, was a reformer who believed that a simpler way to write spoken Chinese was essential to the survival of the nation. Wang’s... Read more »

AI and the future of sex

Anti-porn crusades have been at the heart of the US culture wars for generations, but by the start of the 2000s, the issue had lost its hold. Smartphones made porn too easy... Read more »

Maybe you will be able to live past 122

Many other avenues are being explored, including a diabetes drug that could have broad health benefits; drugs based on a potential anti-aging compound discovered in the soil of Rapa Nui (Easter Island);... Read more »

Move over, text: Video is the new medium of our lives

The smartphone, the internet, and social networks like TikTok have rapidly and utterly transformed this situation. It’s now common, when someone wants to hurl an idea into the world, not to pull... Read more »

The Download: simulating solar geoengineering, and AI-enabled accessibility

1 We aren’t ready for the creep of AI into our camerasCapabilities embedded in the latest Google Pixel handset will further destroy our ability to believe what we see. (The Verge)+ Is this... Read more »

Вибрационные массажеры: технологии современности

В современном мире люди все больше обращают внимание на здоровье и красоту своего тела. Один из способов поддерживать свою физическую форму и улучшать самочувствие – использование вибрационных массажеров. Эти устройства обладают удивительным... Read more »