A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

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Artificial intelligence has moved from checking homework to attacking problems that professional mathematicians once treated as out of reach. Systems tuned for symbolic reasoning are now cracking long ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

Meta's work made headlines and raised a possibility once considered pure fantasy: that AI could soon outperform the world's best mathematicians by cracking math's marquee "unsolvable" problems en ...

Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming ...

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