His work has shown that nods to science fiction in computer-science papers have gone up in recent years, and that computer scientists have used fictional depictions of human-robot relationships ...

What would it take to create a cyborg brain like the one in the new TV show Murderbot? The answer reveals what makes our own brain so unique ...

A teenager is left in charge of a Mars base in one of “The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories ... was inspired by the conversational computer on “Star Trek.” ...

Many of Johnson’s AI students—who are mastering high-level computer science skills —need the context fiction can provide. “Learning to do STEM is typically more about having [students ...

OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman is “deeply obsessed” with the 2013 film Her, according to technology journalist Karen Hao. “Science fiction hugely shapes OpenAI’s imagination and where they’re ...

In the 1999 science-fiction film ... we are living in a virtual simulation and the universe is the “ultimate computer,” he alleged in a new paper. Dr. Melvin Vopson believes that the concept ...

With a leap in the evolution of large language models, some leading thinkers are questioning whether AI might become sentient ...

But what many may not realise is that Musk’s journey toward becoming a world-renowned engineer began with his love for reading, particularly science ... centres around a supercomputer named ...

CHIANG: So as a science-fiction writer, I've always, you know, had a certain interest in artificial intelligence. But as someone who, you know, studied computer science in college, I've always ...