Eye contact is one of the most powerful forms of nonverbal communication. If avatars and robots are ever to exploit it, computer scientists will need to better monitor, understand, and reproduce this ...

"It seems to me that it is really impossible that it could be me." What can a conversation between a virtual Philip K Dick and Dr. Ben Goertzel, one of the world's leading AI researchers, teach us ...

Algorithm's aren't human. As such, they don't value human life. At the Institute of Cognitive Science at Osnabrück University, Germany, virtual reality has become a training ground for machine ...

When Lazare’s first history assignment of the virtual school year came back scored 50/100, a resounding F, the seventh-grader was crestfallen. But when he told his mom how the grade appeared just ...

There's a saying that a messy kitchen is a happy kitchen. However, that concept doesn't apply to data processing. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can't properly execute without ...