The US AI research company Anthropic has become known for building powerful AI models while simultaneously warning about ...

That admission is what some in the field call recursive self-improvement (RSI), the point at which large language models ...

On a Tuesday morning, you open your laptop to respond to your professor. “Thank you for reaching out.” You did not decide to write that. Instead, Gmail floated the phrase into your email, ghost-grey ...

Globally, over 39 million people are living with infection caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Over one million of this number live in Russia.

Schoolchildren from Caversham have become the first to learn a brand new theory that dividing by zero is possible using a new number - 'nullity'. But the suggestion has left many mathematicians cold.

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2016. Contributed by Steven Pinker, May 1, 2019 (sent for review April 1 ...

Science is a messy business, but just like everything with loose ends and ragged edges, we tend to understand it by resorting to ideal types. On the one hand, there’s the archetype of the scientific ...