AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

Keeping high-power particle accelerators at peak performance requires advanced and precise control systems. For example, the primary research machine at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...

In the space of a day, two AI stories broke into the mainstream. They were, in different ways and from different insider perspectives, about the same thing: becoming suddenly, and profoundly, worried ...

According to Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) on Twitter, Yann LeCun is conflating general intelligence with universal intelligence, emphasizing that both human brains and AI foundation models function ...

According to Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) on Twitter, Yann LeCun is conflating general intelligence with universal intelligence, emphasizing that both human brains and AI foundation models function ...

There’s a new block on the block, or at least there will be soon. The Steam Machine, Valve’s new cuboid mini gaming PC disguised as a game console is coming early next year. And that’s exciting! I ...

It might be small, but Valve's Steam Machine carries with it the very real possibility of shaking up the console gaming landscape. The cube has the specs, form-factor, and library to stand toe-to-toe ...

Pick up an August 2025 issue of Vogue, and you’ll come across an advertisement for the brand Guess featuring a stunning model. Yet tucked away in small print is a startling admission: She isn’t real.

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

Source: ChatGPT modified by NostaLab. What seems like a lifetime ago, Alan Turing proposed the now-famous experiment that we all know. It was a conversation between a person and a machine, judged by ...