Researchers across biology, philosophy, and AI are split on what counts as a mind—and whether today’s systems qualify.

The source of many disagreements is that people rely, often implicitly, on two radically different notions of “intelligence." ...

Software engineering is the branch of computer science that deals with the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications. Software engineers apply engineering principles and ...

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This was the question posed to me last summer by an English professor at a top research university, at a backyard barbecue.

Research on system architecture has proved a very fundamental tradeoff that applies to ubiquitous connectivity. It tells us ...

In some sense, it’s comparable to new users of spreadsheets who think they can generate an accounting package. There are good ...

New regulations make this non-negotiable, but multi-die assemblies and more interactions at the edge are creating some huge ...

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

The rise of AI has given us an entirely new vocabulary. Here's a list of the top AI terms you need to learn, in alphabetical order.

A global shortage of construction-grade sand is reshaping coastlines, destabilizing ecosystems, and putting activists in the ...

Federico Vincenti and Carola Valente Della Rovere of Valente Associati GEB Partners/Crowe Valente explain how Italy ...