Figuring out how to enhance a person’s mental capabilities has been of considerable interest to psychology and neuroscience researchers like me for decades. From...
The ability of machines to read our minds has been steadily progressing in recent years. Now, researchers have used AI video generation technology to...
The recent proliferation of generative AI models—which are now being used to produce online search results, make art, help with customer service calls, and...
Editor's Note: The following is a brief letter from Ray Kurzweil, cofounder and member of the board at Singularity Group, Singularity Hub's parent company,...
There’s long been concern about automation and AI making jobs obsolete, and the release of ChatGPT and similar large language models has only fueled...
Since OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT last November, the buzz around generative AI has been steadily ramping up. Some are excited about its potential to...
SpaceX’s massive new Starship rocket is central to Elon Musk's plans for humanity to become multi-planetary. It blasted off for its maiden flight yesterday...
The human brain remains the most mysterious organ in our bodies. From memory and consciousness to mental illness and neurological disorders, there remain volumes...
The hype around artificial intelligence has been building for years, and you could say it reached a crescendo with OpenAI’s recent release of ChatGPT...
The race to solve every protein structure just welcomed another tech giant: Meta AI.
A research offshoot of Meta, known for Facebook and Instagram, the...
In 2020, artificial intelligence company OpenAI stunned the tech world with its GPT-3 machine learning algorithm. After ingesting a broad slice of the internet,...
Of all the advanced technologies currently under development, one of the most fascinating and frightening is brain-computer interfaces. They’re fascinating because we still have...
Breakthroughs don’t often happen in neuroscience, but we just had one. In a tour-de-force, an international team released the full brain connectivity map of...
Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose...
Despite impressive progress, today’s AI models are very inefficient learners, taking huge amounts of time and data to solve problems humans pick up almost...
Earth’s surface is the “living skin” of our planet—it connects the physical, chemical, and biological systems. Over geological time, landscapes change as this surface...
The human brain is a master of computation. It’s no wonder that from brain-inspired algorithms to neuromorphic chips, scientists are borrowing the brain’s playbook...
One of my favorite childhood summertime memories is being surrounded by fireflies. As the sun set, their shimmering glow would spark up the backyard...
Nearly a decade ago, mini-brains shot onto the neuroscience scene with a hefty promise: understanding the developing brain and restoring injured brains.
Known as brain...
Proteins are often called the building blocks of life.
While true, the analogy evokes images of Lego-like pieces snapping together to form intricate but rigid...
These days, we don’t have to wait long until the next breakthrough in artificial intelligence impresses everyone with capabilities that previously belonged only in...
