[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzlbyTZsQY[/youtube] Two chatbots talking in the dead of night, there’s not a single human in sight! It’s natural! This is one of the strangest, yet interesting videos I’ve seen this year as two AI computers essentially talk about life, religion, robots and unicorns. I’m glad they didn’t discuss politics or this could have been awkward.

Professor Henry Markram, a doctor-turned-computer engineer, announced that his team would create the world’s first artificial conscious and intelligent mind by 2018. And that is exactly what he is doing. On the shore of Lake Geneva, this brilliant, eccentric scientist is building an artificial mind. A Swiss – it could only be Swiss – precision- […]