Many people tend to conflate emotional intelligence with empathy. Emotional intelligence involves—and necessitates—much more.

Claims that artificial intelligence (AI) is on the verge of surpassing human intelligence have become commonplace. According to some commentators, rapid advances in large language models signal an ...

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke Consider all of the things that your hand-held cellphone does. It can be a phone, camera, gallery, text, ...

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the University of California San Diego believe the answer is yes—and that such ...

“Life” and “intelligence” are terms with heavily contested meanings. This discussion will offer a novel, unified perspective on both, as described in Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ new book, What Is ...