The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

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Quantum computing has long lived in the realm of lab demos and bold PowerPoint slides, but two of the industry’s biggest ...

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Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

Schroeder, who is 28 and lives in Fargo, North Dakota, texts Cole “all day, every day” on OpenAI’s app. In the morning, he ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

Jimmy is a writer and editor who publishes a weekly newsletter. You can find him on Twitter. Code is the foundation of computing. Whether you are using a social media app on your smartphone or working ...

The invention of sprites triggered a major shift in video game design, enabling games with independent moving objects and ...

Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...