Artificial Intelligence
Rapid advancements in AI today have the potential to change everything about everything. But will they? We’re exploring what will change, how, and whether we’re building digital gods or stochastic parrots.
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Has AI made “learn to code” obsolete?
Freethink talks to the creator of the world’s most popular AI coding assistant to find out whether learning to code is still worthwhile.
AI is already in the classroom. It’s time colleges caught up.
Rather than banning AI, schools should adapt by designing assignments that promote responsible use and keep the focus on learning.
Google AI exec: “The mistake would be thinking this is hype.”
Bestselling author and Google Labs’ Editorial Director Steven Johnson talks about the future of AI at Freethink’s Great Progression event.
A tool, a rival, or a collaborator?
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Superhuman
Electric skin gives sensation back to amputees
Touch is a sensation that connects us all. This scientist created electronic skin that lets people with prosthetic limbs feel.
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Superhuman
The emerging cyborg
Alec McMorris is testing one of the world’s most advanced prosthetics – an AI powered bionic leg.
Advanced prosthetics are not only powerful, they’re beautiful
“There’s a deep, deep relationship between the functionality of the device and a person’s identity of what their body is.”
How to spot a deepfake
Is artificial intelligence the key to knowing what’s real?
How the technology behind deepfakes can help us create a better world
Deepfakes have ignited fierce media criticism and call into question the public’s ability to discern fact from…
Can people with autism help create next-generation AI?
Daivergent is a new startup that hires people with autism to train artificial intelligence – and helps them start independent careers.
Saving lives with AI
Artificial intelligence can find hidden patterns in patient’s vital signs – and stop emergencies before they happen.
AI will make you smarter
Artificial intelligence will multiply your own intelligence, in ways that will surprise you.
AI could replace chemical testing on animals
Scientists have developed software that could save one billion dollars (and two million animals) each year.
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Coded
How AI could revolutionize coffee
Could the blockchain be used to make fair trade goods live up to their promise?
Can an algorithm catch a serial killer?
A self-professed data nerd, Thomas Hargrove believes everything around us is following a mathematical formula…including murder.
You should start learning about artificial intelligence. Here's how.
There are a lot of different levels of artificial intelligence being applied in a lot of different ways. Here’s a…
Meet the startup developing human-level artificial intelligence
The story of Vicarious’ mission to build the world’s first human-level artificial intelligence and use it to help…
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Challengers
Can AI solve our biggest problems?
Vicarious believes smart machines could solve virtually every problem humans can’t.
This week in ideas: Beer that delivers itself, chatbots from beyond, and how to set a very strange world record
Uber’s self-driving beer truck, how a chatbot can help the grieving process, and more of our favorite stories from…
This computer can write 2,000 snarky articles per second
What does it mean for the future of journalism when a computer can turn mounds of data into a cohesive narrative?
Can tech giants get ahead of AI?
Companies gather to discuss impact of A.I. A possible neural lace breakthrough. And unmanned cargo ships. This is…
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