A bloody Taj Mahal. A haunted Colosseum. A toxic Capitol Hill. Welcome to the "Nightmare Machine," a horror-imagery project created by three researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The threat that machines will act independently of their operators has stoked fears for longer than artificial intelligence has been a concept — but could a computer actually learn to scare us? Enter ...

Algorithms seem to know everything about us; they read and summarize our emails, they feed us videos aligned with our interests, and they’ve even taken over as in-person therapists. For many, AI is a ...

Just in time for Halloween, a team of researchers has announced the launch of the “Nightmare Machine,” a series of algorithms put together in hopes of finding the root of fear. The Nightmare Machine ...

Aficionados of creepypasta will find a lot to love here. It's like a visual Markov generator for viscerally horrifying images. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...