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Behind most every tech billionaire is a sci-fi novel they read as a teenager. For Bill Gates it was Stranger in a Strange Land, the 1960s epic detailing the culture clashes that arise when a Martian visits Earth. Google’s Sergey Brin has said it was Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, the cyberpunk classic about hackers and computer viruses set in an Orwellian Los Angeles. Jeff Bezos cites Iain M. Banks
Technology Last Words: Computational Linguistics and Deep Learning A look at the importance of Natural Language Processing. By Christopher D. Manning March 16, 2017 Add a comment The Deep Learning Tsunami Deep Learning waves have lapped at the shores of computational linguistics for several years now, but 2015 seems like the year when the full force of the tsunami hit the major Natural Language Pr
Once you start poking around in the muck of consciousness studies, you will soon encounter the specter of Sir Roger Penrose, the renowned Oxford physicist with an audacious—and quite possibly crackpot—theory about the quantum origins of consciousness. He believes we must go beyond neuroscience and into the mysterious world of quantum mechanics to explain our rich mental life. No one quite knows wh
People often ask me whether human-level artificial intelligence will eventually become conscious. My response is: Do you want it to be conscious? I think it is largely up to us whether our machines will wake up. That may sound presumptuous. The mechanisms of consciousness—the reasons we have a vivid and direct experience of the world and of the self—are an unsolved mystery in neuroscience, and som
Psychology What Do Animals See in a Mirror? A controversial test for self-awareness is dividing the animal kingdom. By Chelsea Wald April 25, 2014 Illustration by Emmanuel Polanco Add a comment The idea for a tool to probe the basis of consciousness came to Gordon G. Gallup, Jr. while shaving. “It just occurred to me,” he says, “wouldn’t it be interesting to see if other creatures could recognize
A few months ago, my aunt sent her colleagues an email with the subject, “Math Problem! What is the answer?” It contained a deceptively simple puzzle: She thought her solution was obvious. Her colleagues, though, were sure their solution was correct—and the two didn’t match. Was the problem with one of their answers, or with the puzzle itself? My aunt and her colleagues had stumbled across a funda
Neuroscience This Is Your Brain on Silence Contrary to popular belief, peace and quiet is all about the noise in your head. By Daniel A. Gross July 31, 2014 Illustration By Leonard Peng Add a comment One icy night in March 2010, 100 marketing experts piled into the Sea Horse Restaurant in Helsinki, with the modest goal of making a remote and medium-sized country a world-famous tourist destination.
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Sociology Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese By Amos Zeeberg May 31, 2016 Photograph by Trung Kaching / Flickr Add a comment The stories have become all too familiar in Japan, though people often do their best to ignore them. An elderly or middle-aged person, usually a man, is found dead, at home in his apartment, frequen
On a recent Sunday, at my local Italian market, I considered the octopus. To eat the tentacle would be, in a way, like eating a brain—the eight arms of an octopus contain two-thirds of its half billion neurons. Delicious for some, yes—but for others, a jumping off point for the philosophical question of other minds. “I do think it feels like something to be an octopus,” says Peter Godfrey-Smith, a
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Technology The Most Important Object In Computer Graphics History Is This Teapot By Jesse Dunietz February 26, 2016 Add a comment
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Psychology Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot We predicted cell phones, but not women in the workplace. By Tom Vanderbilt September 8, 2015 Illustration by Robin Davey Add a comment In early 1999, during the halftime of a University of Washington basketball game, a time capsule from 1927 was opened. Among the contents of this po
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Physics Five Things We Still Don’t Know About Water From steam to ice, water continues to mystify. By Richard Saykally June 4, 2015 Illustration by Jackie Ferrentino Add a comment What could we not know about water? It’s wet! It’s clear. It comes from rain. It boils. It makes snow and it makes ice! Does our government actually spen
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Arts How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music I wanted to build the ideal collaborator. Was I ever surprised. By John Supko January 29, 2015 Artwork by Dorazio Piero Add a comment On a warm day in April 2013, I was sitting in a friend’s kitchen in Paris, trying to engineer serendipity. I was trying to get my computer to writ
Math How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math Sorry, education reformers, it’s still memorization and repetition we need. By Barbara Oakley September 11, 2014 Illustration by Sam Falconer Add a comment I was a wayward kid who grew up on the literary side of life, treating math and science as if they were pustules from the plague. So it’s a little strange how I’ve ended up now—someone who da
Math The Elegant Math of Machine Learning Anil Ananthaswamy’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Why Machines Learn. By Anil Ananthaswamy July 23, 2024 Zoology There Will Be Blood Confronting the ethical and ecological dilemma over culling animals for conservation. By Brandon Keim July 22, 2024
Math The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face This theoretical physicist’s idea has an astounding legacy. By Aatish Bhatia November 6, 2013 Add a comment Nine years ago, I was sitting in a college math physics course and my professor spelt out an idea that kind of blew my mind. I think it isn’t a stretch to say that this is one of the most widely applicable mathematical discover
Astronomy If the Olympics Were Held in Space A dispatch from the future of extreme sports. By Chip Rowe July 26, 2016 Astronomy Jupiter’s Incredible Shrinking Spot Earth’s meteorology could explain what’s behind the great red whorl’s waning. By Katherine Harmon Courage July 26, 2024 Evolution When the Composer Is a Geneticist Jenny Graves tired of singing about Adam and Eve. So she wrote a creatio
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