Why AI is taking on impossible challenges. How a perpetual motion machine can power an AI. Why we have to put an explicit ...

Well, not only is ‘Real or Fake?’ back with a new installment, but this time it concerns everybody’s favorite impossibility: perpetual motion machines! It’s likely that you’ve already ...

Villard’s machine An architect named Villard de Honnecourt drew an impractical perpetual motion machine in the 13th century that was also an overbalanced wheel. His device, and other similar ...