Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The government has made ...

The government has made some bold claims for its school reading policies—including that early results have been "transformational." But we should be careful about rushing to judgment this early.

One of the coolest things about generative AI models — both large language models (LLMs) and diffusion-based image generators — is that they are "non-deterministic." That is, despite their reputation ...

Scientists from the University of Exeter has developed a precise method to interpret ankle blood pressure readings—an innovation that could transform care for people unable to have their arm blood ...

From conspiracy theories to new fashion trends, some online ideas explode in hours—capturing attention and shaping discourse—while others hardly gain attention. What makes some ideas go viral while ...

The scene illustrates as well as anything the problem of trying to write a history of that endlessly fascinating but ...

For generations, the American promise of outdoor access — to hike, hunt, fish, camp, and explore our public lands and waters — has been woven into our national identity. But that promise is under ...

Poisoning and manipulating the large language models (LLMs) that power AI agents and chatbots was previously considered a high-level hacking task and one that took a good amount of horsepower and ...

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a ...

James A. Robinson, co-winner of the Economics Nobel 2024, feels that artificial intelligence will lead to huge productivity ...

Which made it particularly interesting last week to hear that Apple took a radically different approach when making a new ...