Sundar Pichai also explained how Google was able to go from being perceived as an AI laggard to a frontrunner and why "there hasn't been a more exciting time to be a computer scientist or engineer." E ...

AI is furthering the war on reality — one that reality looks to be losing, with no obvious reason for optimism in sight. AI-driven strangenesses like this fable merely highlight the need for all of us ...

A marriage of formal methods and LLMs seeks to harness the strengths of both.

Eddy Keming Chen is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. Mikhail Belkin is a professor of artificial intelligence, data science, ...

It's been a quarter of a century since the invention of the CAPTCHA. The great gatekeeper of the internet was originally created by students at Carnegie Mellon University to prevent bots from rigging ...

The Turing test, a long-established tool for measuring machine intelligence, gauges the point at which a text-generating machine can fool a human into thinking it’s not a robot. ChatGPT passed that ...

Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to supply NYC for 800 years This 'outdated' IBM technology just did something it hasn't done in 20 ...

AI wasn't created by one person, instead, it evolved over decades. British mathematician Alan Turing shaped the idea of AI by asking "Can machines think?" and proposing the Turing test. In 1956, at ...

With so many puff pieces out there about what AI can do, it’s rare to see a story about what it can’t do. And as some researchers tell it, AI is falling terribly short at what many of us find to be ...

The next time you encounter an unusually polite reply on social media, you might want to check twice. It could be an AI model trying (and failing) to blend in with the crowd. On Wednesday, researchers ...

It’s a well-worn adage of the Internet age: people often aren’t what they seem to be online. But until recently, you could at least be assured that they were people. Now, though, “chatfishing,” a new ...

Mamdani is seeking to win over the city’s business and civic leaders — including many who are skeptical about his background as a democratic socialist. In a forum convened by the Association for a ...