AI, health, education, consciousness, the web and alien life

Erica, the most autonomous humanoid robot on earth

AIs need to explain themselves

As AIs become employed with critical activities where deadly mistakes are possible like driving our cars, a new question arises: will we be able to know why they acted the way they did in some situation? Deep learning, an AI technique widespread nowadays, allows creating neural networks that are so complex that even the engineers that designed them can't tell exactly how they work

(read businessinsider article here)

100 ways to de-stress

Running could add years to our lives



How to raise a creative child

What is consciousness?

In his writings, philosopher and cognitive scientist Dan Dennett makes the case of defining consciousness as multiple computer programs running on the hardware of the brain. 

(read NewYorker article here)



Tim Berners-Lee was honored with the Turing Award for his work inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and "the fundamental protocols and algorithms [that allowed] the web to scale."

Scientists find molecular hydrogen and liquid-water geysers on ocean-bearing moons in the outer solar system