The threat that machines will act independently of their operators has stoked fears for longer than artificial intelligence has been a concept — but could a computer actually learn to scare us? Enter ...
In the 1970s, MIT researchers built a computer model to simulate the future of human civilization. It predicted that resource depletion, pollution, and population growth would converge around 2020, ...
Pop culture recently scored a hit against haters that question its value, thanks to MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Researchers there have been exposing their ...