Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. Feb 11, 2025, 03:21pm EST Artificial and natural ...

Igniting 2026 therefore begins upstream, not downstream. It starts by clarifying what kind of human development we want AI to ...

Dr. Karl Friston is a distinguished computational psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and pioneer of modern neuroimaging and, now, AI. He is a leading expert on intelligence, natural as well as artificial.

AMES, Iowa – Will artificial intelligence render the human mind irrelevant? Acclaimed scientist and author Steven Pinker will answer that question when he presents the 2024 Goldtrap Lecture at Iowa ...

Humans’ ability to reason is not the same as AI gathering information. When we interact with an AI model, it can be easy to subtly ascribe some measure of natural intelligence to the system, even ...

Artificial intelligence is powerful, but what about natural intelligence? This hour, TED speakers explore the intrinsic genius in animal language, insect behavior, plant anatomy and our immune system.

Last week, I wrote an analysis of “Reward Is Enough,” a paper by scientists at DeepMind. As the title suggests, the researchers hypothesize that the right reward is all you need to create the ...

In a simulation of Mars, a space rover is testing a control system with an unusual inspiration: insect brains. The software was created by Opteran, a startup based in the UK. But the idea originated ...

The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) — from artificial narrow intelligence (ANI), through artificial general intelligence (AGI), to artificial superintelligence (ASI) — is on its way to ...

There’s a reason why emotional intelligence is intrinsically tied to general well-being, according to a 2024 study. Whether it’s self-awareness, an ability to regulate emotions amid chaos, or a ...

Can a plant remember? Can a forest converse? Experiments show that pea plants learn to associate the breeze of a fan with light and grow accordingly. If intelligence means sensing and adjusting to a ...