Biohybrid robots that run on real muscle are shifting from science fiction toward workable machines. In labs around the world ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

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For the past decade, a group called the Future of Life Institute has been campaigning for human welfare in public conversations around nuclear weapons, climate change, artificial intelligence and ...

Sometimes the future is now: It’s 2023, and AI is no longer just a subject of new wave science-fiction scenarios. Maybe you’ve played around with asking ChatGTP to write a screenplay for a movie you ...

Machine learning is coming into a golden age, and with it we’re seeing an awakening of possibilities formerly reserved for science fiction. Machine learning (ML) is a computer’s way of learning from ...

The Nobel-winning author, whose newest book is out this week, discusses work by a few of her favorite writers.

He conceived an early version of cyberspace and predicted the “technological singularity,” a tipping point at which machines would become smarter than humans. By Richard Sandomir Vernor Vinge, a ...

While the deluge has become a nuisance, the stories are easy to spot. The writing is “bad in spectacular ways,” one editor said. By Michael Levenson It could be a tale from science fiction itself: a ...