Artificial Intelligence and automation are often used interchangeably. While the technologies are similar, the concepts are different. Automation is often used to reduce human labor for routine or ...

On Saturday, Beijing hosted what’s being called the world’s first humanoid half-marathon—a footrace that pitted human runners against human-like robots. While technologically impressive, the outcome ...

The world of high technology is no stranger to hype waves. From the dot-com boom to the emergence of cryptocurrencies, and even more recently, the rapid development of AI, investors are constantly ...

Robots have been used in manufacturing since the 1960s. What is new is the application of AI, which potentially gives robots much more powerful analytical, cognitive, and learning capabilities. AI is ...

Human-like robots don't need humanoid bodies. They just need to be expressive. (Well, they don't need to be, but they will be.) Pixar Animation Studios has an unusual logo. The basic logo is the word ...

As both the parent of newly graduated elementary and middle school students, and as a VC who invests in the technologies that could take away future jobs from our kids, I get this question a lot.

Picture the scene: You move into a nursing home in the final years of your life, when you are no longer able to manage on your own. And there you discover the future. The place teems with humanoid ...

Nicolas Cage has slammed artificial intelligence by saying any actor who lets it alter their performance is approaching "a dead end" as "robots cannot reflect the human condition." As reported by ...

The A.I. prediction world is torn between optimism and gloom. A report released on Thursday decidedly lands on the side of gloom. Daniel Kokotajlo, a former OpenAI researcher, leads the A.I. Futures ...

Is it important that your lover be a biological human instead of an A.I. or a robot, or will even asking this question soon feel like an antiquated prejudice? This uncertainty is more than a transient ...

For this week’s Open Questions column, Cal Newport is filling in for Joshua Rothman. In the spring of 1940, Isaac Asimov, who had just turned twenty, published a short story titled “Strange Playfellow ...