The Chinese Room thought experiment challenges the idea that AI systems truly understand language or meaning. Chainsaw ...

Here’s a thought experiment. You’re a pediatrician. A child walks into your consulting room accompanied by a concerned mother. You do tests, you observe. Fairly quickly you arrive at a diagnosis.

There’s much debate on whether AI systems are conscious, but one of the godfathers of AI has a persuasive argument on why ...

Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

The faster you move, the stranger time becomes. By imagining how light travels to two people moving at different speeds, Einstein showed that time isn’t absolute. His thought experiment revealed that ...

When Britain abolished slavery in its empire in 1833, it paid the equivalent of hundreds of billions today in ...