The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the ...

New estimates suggest it might be 20 times easier to crack cryptography with quantum computers than we thought. But don't ...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. At Secret Math Meeting, Researchers Struggle to Outsmart AILyndie Chiou | Scientific American "After throwing professor-level questions at the bot for two days, the ...

Jevin West is a professor and the associate dean for research in the Information School at the University of Washington. He is the co-founder and the inaugural director of the Center for an Informed ...

“Write me a concise summary of Mission Impossible characters and plots to date,” I recently asked ChatGPT before catching the latest franchise entry. It delivered. I didn’t need to understand its code ...

A new study says AI agents can create shared language conventions. Learning how this happens could help us better manage agents in the real world. We all live by unspoken societal rules. Greeting your ...

Artificial Intelligence. The Man Who ‘AGI-Pilled’ GoogleKevin Roose and Casey Newton | The New York Times "When he joined Google in 2014 through the acquisition of DeepMind, the artificial ...

Future. 9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed EverythingAlan Burdick and Emily Anthes | The New York Times "'Basic research is the pacemaker of technological progress,' Vannevar ...

Our eyes take in the dazzling greens of dense forests, blues of alpine lakes, and reds and purples of sunset. Yet there’s an entire world hidden from sight. Our eyes only perceive a narrow sliver of ...

We have a data storage problem. This year, the world’s storage needs will reach 175 zettabytes—the equivalent of over a trillion 4K movies. While hardware advances like solid-state drives are more ...

Discovering existing deposits of the gas that can be economically tapped is key. So, researchers whipped up a guide for hydrogen prospectors. There’s growing optimism that huge amounts of natural ...

Despite the impressive performance of modern AI models, they still struggle to match the learning abilities of young children.Now, researchers have shown that teaching models like kindergartners can ...