Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Are angels really AIs sent to monitor us on behalf of the programmers responsible for our creation? MIT computer scientist Rizwan Virk tackles these ...

The late ‘90s were a weird time. Home computing became increasingly common and the internet hatched into existence, still gooey and ill-mannered. As we turned the millennial page, technology promised ...

Last Friday, I wrote some special coverage for my TAZR Trader members on the SIGGRAPH computer vision event that NVIDIA (NVDA ) attended in Vancouver. I include those notes below under "Robots From ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

Brother Laeo Mystwood looks at the camera, his body obscured by a 3D avatar. He is talking about the many coincidences of his life and how they led him to believe that he’s living in a computer ...

In 2003, Nick Bostrom blew minds with “Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?,” a hugely influential philosophy paper positing that — you guessed it — our reality could actually be a computer ...

The concept of “simulation theory” is not new. It’s been around since René Descartes proposed a version of it in a philosophical argument, and possibly even before then. It holds that everything ...

Sundance: "Room 237" director Rodney Ascher makes a strangely credible case that nothing around us is real. Rodney Ascher’s movies dwell on absurd theories until they start to make a weird kind of ...