Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross wears many hats: he runs a company called Gemedy in Boston focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI), he has a number of academic appointments at Harvard and MIT, and he ...

When we try to figure out how some aspect of thinking works, we always start looking at how the human brain does it. But while humans could be said to be the apex species in this planet, we are far ...

The trouble with AI is not that it is going to rule us, that its ethics are questionable, that it can be used irresponsibly… The trouble with AI is that no one knows what “AI” actually means. The ...

When we talk about artificial intelligence (AI) – which we have done lot recently, including my outline on The Conversation of liability and regulation issues – what do we actually mean? AI experts ...

There is no agreed definition or model of intelligence. By the Collins English Dictionary, intelligence is ‘the ability to think, reason, and understand instead of doing things automatically or by ...

Previously, I discussed a few ways that humans define intelligence, as well as the most widely used measure of intelligence (IQ). Now, we’re breaking away to look at the bigger picture of intelligence ...

What is intelligence? The tiger and the spear. In a previous blog I made three points. The first was that our society (and societies before us, back to the Neolithic era) have prospered because they ...

INTELLIGENCE has enabled humans to reach for the moon, cure disease and generally dominate this small blue dot of a planet. Arriving at a working definition of intelligence still defeats it, however.