Machines have finally passed the Turing Test, the mid-century thought experiment designed to see if a computer could fool us into thinking it was human. In an evaluation last year, 73% of respondents ...

Ada Jin is the founder of Lamu, a Seattle-based digital matchmaking service that relies on artificial intelligence to learn ...

Some years ago, my linguistic research team and I started to develop a computational tool aimed at reconstructing the text of ...

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...

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AI’s thirst for water has sparked widespread environmental fears, with many concerned that the rapidly advancing technology is putting further strain on the world’s resources. Each prompt or question ...

Andretti Global, Honda dominate gold-standard street race, Alex Palou runner-up.

Choosing a Tinder profile picture may feel like a free, personal and creative act. But how true is that? A new study from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) shows that, far from being unique, ...

Dakota is a goofy goober, who often spends too much of his time at home in his room staring at bright lights. When not gaming, working, or contemplating which superpower he wished he had, Dakota can ...

Refik Anadol paints with what he calls "a thinking brush" The 40-year-old Turkish American is not an artist in the traditional sense; he uses a computer, massive amounts of data and artificial ...

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You finally found the car that you love and worked out a great deal with the salesperson. Now they send you over to the finance and insurance (F&I) manager’s office to sign some paperwork. It’s the ...