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 ...

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A new study suggests a novel approach in the long-running scientific endeavor to find intelligent life beyond Earth. Instead of casting a wide, speculative net across the cosmos, researchers from Penn ...

In his classic science fiction novel Contact, Carl Sagan remarked, “The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” Physicist Enrico Fermi is credited with ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the ...

That is where Anonymous Chicken keeps tripping up. A species that uses touch or echolocation as its primary sense and has manipulative appendages could potentially develop a technological civilization ...