The systems can imitate humans ...

Last week I was sitting in a waiting room when the news came across my phone that Ingenuity, the helicopter that NASA put on Mars three years ago, would fly no more. The news hit me hard, and I moaned ...

In many ancient cultures people believed that everything had a spirit. Each human, animal, plant, and even each rock and bolt of lightning were understood as we understand ourselves. If we eat because ...

We’re obsessed with anthropomorphizing AI. That’s the 10-dollar term for treating non-human things like they’re people. It’s not a new phenomenon. We’ve been doing it to machines for centuries. When ...

In our rush to understand and relate to AI, we have fallen into a seductive trap: Attributing human characteristics to these robust but fundamentally non-human systems. This anthropomorphizing of AI ...

Vintage microprocessors usually do something, be it just sitting in an idle loop, calculating something, or simply looking cool in a collector’s cabinet. [Lee] has come up with a vastly cooler use for ...