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Artificial intelligence

Deep Blues

From a conversation between Chen Zhiyan, a Chinese journalist, and three chatbots: Chicken Little, Little Ice, and Little Knoll. The interview was conducted on WeChat, a social-networking platform. It was…

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Crossing the Valley

Like campaigning politicians, pornographers — who are also in the business of galvanizing tired nervous systems — face one problem that never goes away: cutting through the numbness caused by…

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Everything That Rises

I have come to perceive a cosmos filled with superintelligent beings — a virtually infinite number of them, whose minds have transcended their earthbound bodies and are independent of any…

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The Transhuman Condition

By John Markoff, from Machines of Loving Grace, out this month from Ecco Books. Markoff has been a technology and business reporter for the New York Times since 1988. Bill…

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Come With Us If You Want to Live

Among the apocalyptic libertarians of Silicon Valley

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Guest in the Machine

From “Neurosecurity: Security and Privacy for Neural Devices,” by Tamara Denning, Yoky Matsuoka, and Tadayoshi Kohno, which appeared in July in Neurosurgical FOCUS. The authors are computer scientists at the…

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Programming the Post-Human

Computer science redefines "life"

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