Artificial Intelligence

  • Chinook, the unbeatable checkers-playing computer

    Computer scientists have solved the game of checkers, showing that if two players play perfectly, the game will result in a draw. No human can beat their machine.
    By Farhad Manjoo July 19, 2007

  • The perfect man

    Design-your-own boyfriends lack that certain something. Until they don't. A short story.
    By Lauren McLaughlin May 30, 2006

  • The Big Idea

    Presenting the leading edge in science: Decoding the brain, stringing together the universe and arresting human aging.
    By John Horgan November 10, 2005

  • The Big Idea: No more breakthroughs

    We live in a period of explosive scientific progress. But admitting that science has limits may be our greatest achievement.
    By John Horgan November 10, 2005

  • How do you say "regime change" in Arabic?

    Don't look for your tattered dictionary -- just pull out the Phraselator!
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 7, 2003

  • Artificial stupidity, Part 2

    Can chatterbots be as dumb as a box of hammers and still pass the Turing test? Go ask ALICE, she might know.
    By John Sundman February 27, 2003

  • Artificial stupidity

    The saga of Hugh Loebner and his search for an intelligent bot has almost everything: Sex, lawsuits and feuding computer scientists. There's only one thing missing: Smart machines.
    By John Sundman February 26, 2003

  • Flesh, robots and God

    Are they becoming us or are we becoming them? One of the world's leading roboticists discusses the machines in our future -- their ability to think, feel, reproduce and achieve personhood.
    By John Glassie February 25, 2002

  • The emotional machine

    Steve Grand, designer of the artificial life program Creatures, talks about the stupidity of computers, the role of desire in intelligence and the coming revolution in what it means to be "alive."
    By Suzy Hansen January 2, 2002

  • Computer toy joy

    Robot buddies will lead our children into a bright future, says Mark Pesce in his new book, "The Playful World."
    By Janelle Brown October 13, 2000

  • Sally get out the hoses

    Sally Jessy Raphaël producer busted in on-set after-hours porn scandal. And now this: Mark Fuhrman's opinions on TV; Britney Spears disgorges in print.
    By Amy Reiter March 16, 2000

  • The waiting game

    Will John Romero's Daikatana ever hit the shelves? When it does, will first-person shooter players still care?
    By Howard Wen February 8, 2000

  • "Excuse me, are you human?"

    How do you know your new e-mail pen pal isn't an intelligent agent?
    By Simson Garfinkel January 25, 2000

  • Professor cyborg

    If we want to stop machines from taking over, we better start becoming more like them.
    By Janelle Brown October 20, 1999

  • The breakdown of consciousness

    Confronted by the discoveries of artificial intelligence, some philosophers are questioning the very minds that keep their profession afloat.
    By Paige Arthur November 20, 1998

  • 21st - Will the Net spawn intelligent life?

    George Dyson's 'Darwin Among the Machines' traces a strange new scenario for artificial intelligence -- one in which the Internet gets smarter as people get dumber.
    By Andrew Leonard October 23, 1997

  • Beam me up, Dalai

    No technophobe, the Tibetan leader -- the Nicest Man in the World -- talks about robots and artificial intelligence, Spock and alien enlightenment.
    By Jeff Greenwald March 27, 1997
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