One surefire way to annoy an AI researcher is to imply that AI started in 2022 with the arrival of ChatGPT. Generative AI, ...

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a ...

An unstable labor market is pushing skilled workers into new kinds of online work. The jobs may offer short-term income, but ...

In 1862, Mary Todd Lincoln, grieving the loss of her son, organized séances in the White House, hoping to communicate with ...

Explore the potential of quantum computing and the challenges ahead as researchers strive to overcome noise and errors.

A frenzied push for artificial intelligence dominance comes with a different kind of cost for Meta, where massive layoffs, employee surveillance and departures have fueled reports of a heated internal ...

playbook is a compiler stack and reference implementation for turning a natural-language procedure into a runnable, inspectable state-machine agent — a playbook — that orchestrates other AI agents per ...

Valve opened Steam Machine pre-orders on the back of its price and release date announcements for the PC-console hybrid. The situation is much like it was for the Steam Deck, with limited availability ...

Artificial intelligence systems can now convince you they are human. Two large language models have passed the Turing test, which determines if a machine can “show the same intelligence as a human ...

A new University of California, San Diego study found evidence that a modern artificial intelligence system can pass the Turing test. This particular test is a major scientific benchmark that asks ...

An important scientific benchmark that has lasted for over seven decades has been broken by artificial intelligence (AI). A new breakthrough study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...

Chemical synthesis is still performed today much like bespoke craftsmanship where each target molecule demands specialized equipment, ad hoc protocols, and labor ...