An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

The Roman sage Marcus Aurelius said we should never let the future disturb us. But then he never had a conversation with the futurologist Nick Bostrom about the state of the world in 2050. “There’s a ...

Much like The Simpsons, Hideo Kojima is a little too good at predicting the future. The Metal Gear series predicted everything from AI deepfakes and proxy wars to video calls. The original Death ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

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Researchers led by Xian-Yang Qin at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have developed a score ...

The Intersection of Film and Reality ‘The best way to predict the future is to create it.’ Whether attributed to Abraham Lincoln or Peter Drucker, this quote resonates deeply, especially as cinema ...