An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

A new brain decoding method called mind captioning can generate accurate text descriptions of what a person is seeing or recalling—without relying on the brain's language system.

Ovid’s mythic hunter, a dog with his own beach library, and global literacy gaps all point to one truth — knowledge remains ...

A new theory says personal change is like geographical exploration. Just as maps expand when new lands are discovered, our ...

Talking to an AI chatbot in less formal language, as many people do, reduces the accuracy of its responses – suggesting that either we need to be linguistically stricter when using a chatbot, or that ...

For all the hype around AI in the enterprise, most of the attention has been on what the models can do—not how people actually use them. But as AI moves from experimental pilot projects toward mission ...

Do you believe that life exists on other planets? Well, here's an even more mysterious idea: Have you ever considered that there might have been another civilisation with advanced technology on planet ...