AI

Banco Nacional is testing the use of artificial intelligence to contact clients about cards and loans. So far, 2,500 clients have been contacted by this means. The public will be…

If you ask Alexa, and presumably Siri, the two AI voices of collective human unintelligence, whether humans are special among other living things, you will get this wrongheaded answer: “I…

Sometimes you read a sentence that stops you in your tracks. Great writing takes the reader beyond words, and generates a moment of beauty and insight. I came across such…

Neuroscientists and cutting edge computer developers are in the early stages of building a “bridge between flesh and chip.” Chillingly, promoters speak of a “brave new world” of thought-controlled machines–in…

In the science fiction classic “2001, A Space Odyssey,” HAL, the all too human-like computer, malfunctions and kills the hibernating crewmembers, and then snuffs out the life of one of…

President Carlos Alvarado has asked Microsoft to develop technology in Costa Rica and the company agreed to provide artificial intelligence to support the country in its digital transformation. The company…

The first evidence of art has been found in seaside caves in southern Africa. Paleo-anthropologists have uncovered artifacts with geometric designs, as well as ochre for skin pigmentation, dating back…

I received one of those robo-calls where initially you think there’s a human on the other end, but after the first programmed exchange, you realize it’s a computer. In the…