Here’s one definition of science: it’s essentially an iterative process of building models with ever-greater explanatory power. A model is…
Browsing: The Conversation
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…
Interacting with AI chatbots like ChatGPT can be fun and sometimes useful, but the next level of everyday AI goes…