A provocative theory circulating among artificial intelligence researchers suggests that once machines achieve human-level intelligence and beyond, they might create something entirely unexpected: a ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the ...

The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. One of the persistent ...

One of the persistent questions in our brave new world of generative AI: If a chatbot is conversant like a person, if it reasons and behaves like one, then is it possibly conscious like a person?

In the third week of August 1977, Ohio State University astronomer Jerry Ehrman was going over a computer printout of signals collected a few days earlier from his university’s “Big Ear” radio ...

Advanced alien civilizations may communicate via a series of flashing lights, similar to how fireflies do, a new paper hints. This would potentially make extraterrestrials much harder to spot if we ...