American microchip giant Intel is looking for a new CEO following Pat Gelsinger’s shock resignation. This represents more than just a corporate…
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Here’s one definition of science: it’s essentially an iterative process of building models with ever-greater explanatory power. A model is…
On 25 December 2024, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) three years ago, the…
A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”. On December 20,…
A team led by researchers at MIT in the United States has discovered large molecules containing carbon in a distant…
Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometre-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably…
Optimistic advocates for AI say this environmentally costly technology will become more sustainable with time. We can use AI more efficiently, and explore less…
A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke,…
I’m a computer scientist and a bad Christmas shopper. Over the weekend, I wondered whether AI systems might be able…
In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) continued taking large and surprising steps forward. People started conversing with AI “resurrections” of the dead, using AI…