We’re in the untenable position of regarding the AI as alien because we’re already in the position of alienating each other The idea that superintelligent robots are alien invaders coming to “steal ...

ChatGPT wrote that adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous speeches. The generative artificial intelligence language model needed a prompt, of course, and a critical reaction to its bland ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. So vast are the expanses of space and time that fall within an astronomer’s gaze that people in my profession ...

Scientists from Imperial College believe that intelligence may be influenced by two networks of genes, possibly controlled by a master regulatory system British scientists believe they have made a ...

Naomi Alderman introduces her series dissecting the minds of brilliant thinkers from the past; examining the myriad ways in which humans think. Show more Naomi Alderman introduces her series ...

Since homo sapiens first emerged, humanity has enjoyed an unbeaten 300,000–year run as the most intelligent creatures on the planet. However, thanks to rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), ...

As understandings of human intelligence evolve, so, too, do understandings of animal intelligence. Human beings — with our big brains, technology and mastery of language — like to describe ourselves ...

The human brain is turning out to be much more complicated than scientists could have ever imagined (Credit: Mareen Fischinger/Forschungszentrum Jülich) Human brains are bigger than those of our ...

Each episode of Human Intelligence tells a story of how a brilliant mind came up with a brilliant idea Understanding the people behind the thinking that’s shaped our world is a fascinating undertaking ...

Scientists have found the source of a strange form of communication in the ocean that they say could help them locate extraterrestrial life in space. Researchers from the SETI Institute (Search for ...

Human brains are bigger than those of our primate relatives, but evidence from extinct human ancestors suggests size isn't everything. To understand human intelligence, scientists are now looking ...