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Some Neural Networks Learn Language Like Humans

Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire language skills.

June 16, 2023

How We’re Becoming Bigger Jerks Online

Face-altering images are encouraging selfish behavior.

June 15, 2023

What to Wear in the Next Pandemic

Could a spacesuit designed for Mars help us quarantine on Earth?

June 5, 2023

AI Shouldn’t Decide What’s True

Experts on why trusting artificial intelligence to give us the truth is a foolish bargain.

May 17, 2023

The Two-Century Quest to Quantify Our Senses

From speaking flowers to smart watches, we've been seeking to understand ourselves with data since the 19th century.

May 17, 2023

Why Conscious AI Is a Bad, Bad Idea

Our minds haven’t evolved to deal with machines we believe have consciousness.

May 8, 2023

What Does ChatGPT Know About Science?

AI-powered chatbots get science facts basically right, but their reasoning is still shallow.

March 28, 2023

Does GPT-4 Really Understand What We’re Saying?

One question for David Krakauer, an evolutionary theorist and president of the Santa Fe Institute for complexity science.

March 27, 2023

Even Machine Brains Need Sleep

Without some downtime, artificial neural networks become catastrophically forgetful.

Cultivating Joy in Science

A chemist and educational activist on helping Black girls believe in themselves.

February 28, 2023

The Ghostwriter

In a work of fiction, holograms and memory collide.

February 22, 2023