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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 ...
The cosmos is typically a predictable dance of gravity and orbits, but occasionally, a visitor crashes the party with such ...
In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...
As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a ...
Artificial brains, humanoid robots and ‘assistants’ are misleading myths – and they directly affect how we use AI.
According to best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari, "alien intelligence" is a more accurate term for AI than artificial intelligence. See AI anxiety. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All ...
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, published by Oxford University Press in August 2025. John Gertz is the ...