Zuckerberg and Musk impersonate the “Knights of the Apocalypse”: among other things, they invest in the “interface” between human neurons and machines. But they are, in essence, the advertisers of …
What did you say?
Does language have socio-political dimensions? Even when we are dealing with technical terms of a science? From the perspective of contemporary linguistics of structuralist inspiration, such questions seem non-sensical. What …
Minibrains
A favorite theme of science fiction (the entire The Matrix franchise is based on it) as well as discussions among “philosophers of mind”: what would happen if a brain could …
Αway from bad thoughts!
While some researchers are looking for what will, after all, eventually allow techno-science to help those taking exams to “remember all the material” (p. 56), others want to provide social …
Electric memories
A group of researchers from the University of Southern California and the Wake Forest School of Medicine announced that they experimentally confirmed the positive contribution of electrode implantation in the …
Smart machines, foolish users
A recent study revealed that the average smartphone user checks the device about 150 times a day. Over time, this translates into a waste of 7 years spent in front …
Think.
«The program’s goal is to develop a brain-inspired bio-chip that will mimic the function, size, power and energy consumption of a biological cerebral cortex. If successful, the program will lay …
Remember, or not
Why does the way we remember (like all living beings, after all) draw so much attention from scientists? If you ask them and they bother to answer, you’ll get a …
At a glance
Would it ever cross your mind that something as commonplace as “I’m looking for my keys—where the hell did I leave them?” could become the subject of “scientific research”? No. …
Robotic know thyself
Some robots are trained in pain, others learn to draw correct ethical conclusions, but in New York three Japanese NAO robots displayed reactions considered to be the first signs of …
scientific “truths”
“Researchers lie” (not always!). If you make this kind of observation in front of even one researcher, from any field, you’ll get seriously bashed. It’s the fate of the “unskilled”: …
“robotic scientist”
The person depicted is Isaac Newton. Now, an algorithm named “Sir Isaac” in his honor is, according to its creators, a small but decisive step toward the “robot scientist.” The …