X may soon provide more insight into how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on the platform to say that the ...

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anthropomorphism: When humans tend to give nonhuman objects humanlike characteristics. In AI, this can include believing a ...

Today's AI agents are a primitive approximation of what agents are meant to be. True agentic AI requires serious advances in reinforcement learning and complex memory.

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

Discrepancies in long COVID definitions hinder accurate diagnosis and treatment, necessitating a standardized definition for better clinical and research outcomes. A study identified five common ...

GitHub Copilot Pro now supports GPT-5 in VS Code. A 30-day trial lets you test premium models for free. Add your OpenAI key to bypass Copilot restriction. First, open VS Code. Click the little Copilot ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...