What happens when a sophisticated cognitive system quietly stops being exercised? There is a peculiar irony at the heart of the AI moment. We have built machines that mimic thought so fluently that we ...
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.
When Jane Goodall arrived at Tanzania's Gombe Stream in 1960, she carried neither a doctoral degree nor conventional scientific training. What she possessed was something far more useful: the ...