Half a century ago, a philosopher imagined a world where we could fulfil our desires through digital simulations. He argued we'd prefer reality, but was he right? In a pivotal scene in the movie The ...

In 2007, Christoph Bartneck, a robotics professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, decided to stage an experiment loosely based on the famous (and infamous) Milgram obedience study. In ...

For more than 20 years in experimental particle physics and astrophysics, machine learning has been accelerating the pace of science, helping scientists tackle problems of greater and greater ...

Machine learning startup Weights and Biases Inc. said today it has raised $45 million in a new round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $65 million. The Series B round was led by ...

To understand how social rules affect the interactions between humans and machines, scientists re-created a famous psychology experiment using... No Mercy For Robots: Experiment Tests How Humans ...