Ever since we published our very first issue 123 years ago—yes, we’re old—Popular Mechanics has endeavored to help you understand all kinds of technological marvels, from the tools in your shed, to ...

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: A biotech startup is developing next-generation psychedelics designed to evoke specific, curated states of mind. Psychedelics provide a way to safely and ...

We apologize to our Roombas when we trip over them—so why do we hesitate to call an LLM conscious when it starts apologizing back? Maybe the real question isn’t if AI is conscious, but rather what ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

Artificial intelligence, which is already trippy enough, has taken on a startling new role for some users: that of a psychedelic “trip-sitter” that guides them through their hallucinogenic journeys.

Gowtham Chilakapati is a Director at Humana. He is an expert in enterprise data and AI systems with a focus on real-time analytics. As a technologist specializing in retrieval-augmented generation ...

Picture this: a group of hairy, wild primates bounding across the African savannas stumbles upon a patch of strange mushrooms growing on dung. Curious and hungry, they eat them. Their senses sharpen, ...