When Jane Goodall arrived at Tanzania's Gombe Stream in 1960, she carried neither a doctoral degree nor conventional scientific training. What she possessed was something far more useful: the ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming nearly every part of modern life from how we work and learn to how we create, communicate, and make decisions. Yet as AI becomes more capable, it also raises a ...

“Life” and “intelligence” are terms with heavily contested meanings. This discussion will offer a novel, unified perspective on both, as described in Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ new book, What Is ...

Lesson 1: Humans Must Be in Control Of all the dreams about artificial intelligence, none seduces Silicon Valley luminaries more completely than the vision of a human-less future where machines ...

For generations, humans have congratulated themselves on being the planet’s most advanced species. We point to our cities, our technologies, our sciences, and our global reach as proof of superior ...

As AI begins to transform education, work, and social life, we need to focus on developing and expanding capacities essential ...

Everyone is talking about intelligent agents these days, but I have to admit I’m not totally convinced. The whole world is raving about how important and unique these things are, and I’m just not sold ...

Large language models can write poetry, solve complex math problems, and even help diagnose diseases. But can they really understand emotions? New research from the University of Bern and the ...

I'd be happy if by the time I retire, we have [artificial intelligence] systems that are as smart as a cat," Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, Turing Award winner and one of the founding fathers ...