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

“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, ...

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 ...

The four faculty that assembled to explore artificial general intelligence represent multiple disciplines across UC San Diego ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The term artificial intelligence renders the sense that what computers do is either inferior to or at least apart from human intelligence. AI researcher Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues that may not be ...