Research shows that humans are susceptible to simple stories and biased toward arguments that fit their current perspectives.

Like many AI systems, Instacart’s product-replacement system needs to gauge its own confidence in order to turn predictions ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a simpler computing model inspired by the behavior of slime molds. The approach could ...

“After all, when a classical computer and a quantum simulator tackle the same problem, it’s not just a matter of which one ...

How agents acquire abstract concepts from sparse, diverse examples—often without explicit supervision—remains a central ...

Despite the greatest strides in mathematics, these hard math problems remain unsolved. Take a crack at them yourself.

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

For years, the Fermi Paradox made one idea seem obvious: in a universe this huge, alien civilizations should be everywhere. But this episode turns that logic upside down by asking a far darker ...

OpenAI has announced a new milestone in artificial intelligence research, claiming that its unreleased AI model, Astra, has solved or made significant progress on 10 long-standing problems in ...

Drive nearly anywhere in Seattle and you’ll see tents surrounded by debris, open drug use, and people hunched over on sidewalks or huddled in bus shelters. Most of us agree it’s unacceptable for ...

Solutions for higher-order unconstrained binary optimisation (HUBO) problems involving up to 500 variables were found in 170 seconds, representing a substantial improvement over existing methods.