This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

Have A.I. models already reached consciousness? Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, is open to that possibility. He hopes for a relationship between humans and A.I. where “they want the ...

The currents of the oceans, the roiling surface of the sun, and the clouds of smoke billowing off a forest fire—all are ...

As artificial intelligence reshapes how information is produced and consumed, computer scientist Dr. Alvitta Ottley asks a more fundamental question — how do people actually think with data? A leading ...

Although chatbots such as ChatGPT, which are powered by large language models (LLMs), have some sense of time, it is conceptualized in a completely different way. As we increasingly interact with them ...

In 1999, the Indian computer scientist and educational theorist Sugata Mitra created a small, if audacious, learning ...

Microsoft PC Manager is a free Windows utility that combines existing system‑maintenance tools into a simplified dashboard.

Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn, and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Experts at the ...

Physicists long believed time was a basic feature of the universe. But it may just emerge from cosmic information.

For decades, scientists have asked whether language simply reports conscious thought or helps shape it. New insights from ...

The team used an AI method known as equation discovery to develop a model to simulate the interactions between small eddies—circular, vortex-like currents—and large-scale ones. These interactions are ...

The arguments advanced by the lawmakers against the compulsory “real-time” electronic transmission of polling-unit results to the public results portal were reasonable, though disappointing. Their ...