Above, Melanie Mitchell has reminded us that the abstract activities of chess and Go – two applications that AI put human beings firmly...

We’ve already noted that Douglas Hofstadter, in his seminal Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, established baselines for both...

When considering our AI future, the new human era of human-machine integration, there are numerous scenarios we are obliged to evaluate....

In 2017, Google’s DeepMind team unveiled AlphaGo Zero, a game-playing AI that was a successor to AlphaGo, which had beaten Lee Sodel, the...

There’s much debate over how soon AI and robots are going to strip away human labor, with predictions (documented elsewhere in this book)...

I have a grandson named JJ. He’s a college freshman, studying to be an engineer. He’s bright, focused, curious, and industrious –...

Much is being written about how human-like generative AI seems, and just as much is being written about how that’s just an illusion;...

You probably see some, if not all, of these headlines every day at this point: AI is going to cause a global financial meltdown AI can do...

AI expert Melanie Mitchell underscores the realities of natural language processing by way of the Hamburger Problem – a brief thought...

The Millennium Project, a think tank belonging to the World Federation of United Nations Associations, in its State of the Future 19.1...

Those of us who have serious concerns, or even fears, about the future we face as AI becomes part of our world are wildly diverse: these...

We don’t often think of AIs in the Internet as robots, but robots they are – just as HAL was. They don’t have to walk on four legs to...

Much of the disquiet over AI’s rapid advances is the growing fear that it will very soon catch up with us, and then blow right past us. A...

Melanie Mitchell, former student of Douglas Hofstadter and respected AI authority in her own right, recalled attending a conference at...

AI is popping up everywhere, and that’s not going to stop. Ever. And it only takes a few minutes in a news feed to find reasons to be...

In the face of ChatGPT, the Turing Test now seems passé. Alexa and Siri took us close to the edge years ago, of course, offering us...

One aspect of the AI parade that I find both enjoyable and reassuring is the range of the response. While the world is tightly polarized,...

As AI hype soars in the media, with dozens of new articles and blog posts pouring into everyone’s news feeds every day, it’s hard to...

So I’m having lunch with two of my adult children, and we're talking about the impact of AI on the job market – in creative domains in...

So I’m having lunch with two of my adult children, who have recently been venting about how AI is encroaching into their career space....