The Future

A recent conference on the future of artificial intelligence features visionary debate between Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Nick Bostrom, David Chalmers, Jaan Tallinn and others.

One day this century, a robot of super-human intelligence will offer you the chance to upgrade your mind, says AGI expert Ben Goertzel. Will you take it?

If we could jump 50 years into the future, what will our world look like? Flying cars? Hologram phones? Bill Nye sees two technological paths ahead – and we're in the fork between them at this very moment.

We are on the verge of something meaningful and incredible with emergent artificial intelligence, says Toni Lane Casserly. But which way will humanity steer it? As with any system, it's up to us.

Robots and AI are going to become an everyday part of life, but will that take away other everyday parts of life?

The Antipode may one day revolutionize your commute. It would be 10 times faster than the Concorde and take you across the ocean before you could finish an episode of The Simpsons. 

Facebook can flip your digital identity on and off at the switch; that is way too much power for any corporation to have, says Oliver Luckett — and we handed it to them.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not nearly as smart as we want it to be. Because we are not nearly as smart as we want to be.

Stephen Hawking considers the future of humanity in a talk at Oxford University.

Google’s Deep Brain team watched neural nets learn to develop their own encryption.

Bill Nye casts his mind to the future to give us a picture of how the descendants of our current 3D printing technology will change our ways and our world.

They may look odd, but it’s all part of Google’s plan to solve a huge issue in machine learning: recognizing objects in images.

According to Pulitzer prize-nominated writer Nicholas Carr the internet is a utopia in which we never have to confront anything. When technology and humanity intersect, how does it affect our brains, our intellect, and our ability to explore? 

Google's DeepMind creates AI that blows away existing speech synthesizers. 

If someone comes back from the future, they ought to have packed one thing in their carry on: proof.

The Pokemon Go craze is finally reaching an equilibrium. The game had a stellar run while it lasted, but over the last few weeks Pokemon Go has seen a steady drop-off in daily active users (DAUs).

The saying in coding goes: if you have to do a job more than once, automate the task. Bots will one day unburden you from these tasks.

A noted economist and futurist Robin Hanson sees a civilization of brain simulations or "ems" rising within the next 100 years.

Wake up and smell the independence. Thomas Jefferson urged 18th century Americans to think of themselves not as colonial Englishmen, but as a new culture. To that end, he used architecture to serve as a visual reminder of America's proud new direction.

Many predictions by Nikola Tesla, one of the world's most celebrated inventors, have already come true and some might in the near future.

Norway, Europe's largest petroleum producer, makes an unprecedented commitment to green energy.