René Descartes sharpened the distinction into two substances: res cogitans (a thinking part that exists outside the body) and res extensa (the body).

For the upcoming 2024 Grammy Awards, SZA leads all artists with the most nominations at nine. One of these is for the Best Pop Duo-Group Performance, where her song “Ghost in the Machine,” featuring ...

Bootoshi is one of the more curious minds pushing the boundaries of art, AI, and bitcoin. Part builder, artist, and tinkerer, he’ll be bringing his latest work to both the Bitcoin Conference Las Vegas ...

The landscape of human creativity is undergoing a metamorphosis of unprecedented scale and complexity. Like a tsunami of innovation crashing against the shore, the emergence of Large Language Models ...

We have been fascinated by automatons since the time of Leonardo da Vinci, and science fiction writers have been speculating about robots and artificial intelligence since the 1920s. But now reality ...

"The machine itself makes no demands: it is the people who create it, and use it, that demand the sacrifices ..." Someone asked me the other day in that half-joking, half-worried tone people get when ...

PHILADELPHIA — Why is it that the furnace works just fine until the first really cold day of the year? That’s the question I asked the repairman as he pulled the top panel off and began poking the ...