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The human brain remains one of the most mysterious and unexplored frontiers. However, with the rapid development of science and technology, this is changing. The advancement of neurotechnologies, ...

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and ...

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In an age of instant gratification—Google searches in seconds, ChatGPT responses that complete your thoughts before you finish thinking them—all of us, students included, develop an appetite for speed ...

Here’s the assignment: Analyze the causes of the American Revolution and evaluate which cause was most significant. Support your argument with evidence. Here’s what the student writes: "The most ...

Singapore-based AI startup Sapient Intelligence has developed a new AI architecture that can match, and in some cases vastly outperform, large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks, all ...

The artificial intelligence community has long struggled with a fundamental challenge of making AI systems transparent and understandable. As large language models become increasingly powerful, ...

Scientists from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and Meta have abandoned their fierce corporate rivalry to issue a joint warning about AI safety. More than 40 researchers across these competing ...

Modeling AI systems on dual-process theories of human cognition can improve their ability to flexibly handle diverse tasks. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), two schools of thought have ...