Artificial intelligence (AI) might be all the rage today but the philosophical questions it poses — can machines replace humans, can AI and machines be trusted, and how can AI be used humanely?— are hardly unique. Greek mythology tackled such questions over 2,500 years ago. The myth of Talos tells…

Like Mark Twain’s claim that the news of his death was greatly exaggerated, the news of the browser cookie’s death might also have been a little premature, but the cookie’s demise, like the Twain claim, is destined to be fulfilled and whether it’s within a year, a two or three…

“Our faces are organs of emotional communication; by some estimates, we transmit more data with our expressions than with what we say,” says Raffi Khatchadourian in his article We Know How You Feel. These expressions are now taking center stage in what’s become known as “emotional communication” technology. Companies like…

The advertising maven Dave Trott once professed “Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.” These are important words to keep in mind because it is getting harder and harder for brands to differentiate themselves from the competition. The marketing…

The Old Testament’s ‘Tower of Babel’ story is an origin myth that tries to explain why humanity doesn’t speak a single, universal language. According to the Bible, a united human race that speaks the same language arrived in the land of Shinar and decided to build a tower tall enough…

In every classic vampire movie, there’s a moment when the soon-to-be victim lingers on the threshold of his or her abode and an attractive vampire leans in and innocently asks, “Aren’t you going to invite me in?” The hapless soon-to-be victim, having never seen a vampire film before, says those…

I’ve always found the fact that the acronym for artificial intelligence in English, AI, is surprisingly similar to the first two characters for that word in simplified Chinese — ‘人工智能’. The first two characters together, 人工, mean ‘people’ and ‘work’ individually, but when put together mean ‘artificial’ while ‘智能’ means…