Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. AI researcher working with the UN and others to drive social change. Feb 11, 2025, 03:21pm EST Artificial and natural ...

Igniting 2026 therefore begins upstream, not downstream. It starts by clarifying what kind of human development we want AI to ...

Dr. Karl Friston is a distinguished computational psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and pioneer of modern neuroimaging and, now, AI. He is a leading expert on intelligence, natural as well as artificial.

Humans’ ability to reason is not the same as AI gathering information. When we interact with an AI model, it can be easy to subtly ascribe some measure of natural intelligence to the system, even ...

Artificial intelligence is powerful, but what about natural intelligence? This hour, TED speakers explore the intrinsic genius in animal language, insect behavior, plant anatomy and our immune system.

When Jane Goodall arrived at Tanzania's Gombe Stream in 1960, she carried neither a doctoral degree nor conventional scientific training. What she possessed was something far more useful: the ...

In a simulation of Mars, a space rover is testing a control system with an unusual inspiration: insect brains. The software was created by Opteran, a startup based in the UK. But the idea originated ...