Can you upload a human mind into a computer? A neuroscientist ponders what’s possible

Yet science has a track record of turning theoretical possibilities into reality. Just because a concept seems terribly, ...
Nature

Wake up call for AI: computer-vision research increasingly used for surveillance

Imaging research in the popular field of computer vision almost always involves analysing humans and their environments, and most of the subsequent patents can be used in surveillance technologies, a ...
The Conversation

AI systems and humans ‘see’ the world differently – and that’s why AI images look so garish

T.J. Thomson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is an affiliate with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society. How do computers see the world? It’s ...
CNN

The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI

Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” fears the technology he helped build could wipe out humanity — and “tech bros” are taking the wrong approach to stop it. Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning ...