Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious? We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?
Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will help...
The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.
Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences
The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.
If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.