A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Google helped make an exquisitely detailed map of a tiny piece ...

Brain-computer interfaces will play a central role in defining how human intelligence and artificial intelligence fit together.

Scientists at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. have created a self-organizing, artificially intelligent system that uses the same tricks as the human brain to solve specific tasks. This ...

Aiming to be first in the world to have the most advanced forms of artificial intelligence while also maintaining control over more than a billion people, elite Chinese scientists and their government ...

There’s no question that AI systems have accomplished some impressive feats, mastering games, writing text, and generating convincing images and video. That’s gotten some people talking about the ...

If you are willing to lie very still in a giant metal tube for 16 hours and let magnets blast your brain as you listen, rapt, to hit podcasts, a computer just might be able to read your mind. Or at ...

Current AI technology has hit a wall that prevents it from reaching artificial general intelligence. The next design leap involves adding a type of complexity that attempts to mimic the way the human ...

Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through different environments—whether it's swimming in a lake or walking a path—without ...

Elon Musk's company shows off a man with quadriplegia playing online chess via brain implant. But it'll be a years before limited trials of a brain-machine interface progress to broader medical use.