In his new book, “A World Appears,” Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a ...

Technology Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Ghana, Legon, Isaac Wiafe, has called on academics, policymakers and local communities to take urgent steps to protect ...

To his credit, Kasy is a realist here. He doesn’t presume that any of these proposals will be easy to implement. Or that it will happen overnight, or even in the near future. The troubling question at ...

A brisk theatrical thriller, “Data” perfectly captures the slick, grandiose language with which tech titans justify their ...

An audio clip that claims to be from a victim of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, talking about abuse by Bill and Hillary Clinton, is AI-generated. PolitiFact found no verified reports about deceased ...

Systems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest paths in networks.… The underlying research claims to improve on the classic approach ...

In his new book A World Appears, the journalist explores the mysteries of the human brain — and whether computers could ever ...

AI optimists envision a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpasses human intelligence, but the path remains riddled with scientific and logistical hurdles.

In 2018, I was sitting at my desk at Alibaba’s Hangzhou headquarters at 10 PM during Double 11, China’s equivalent of Black Friday, when an engineer pulled me into a dimly lit conference room. What he ...

Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

Whether they're zany comedies like Back to the Future or cerebral dramas like Arrival, these sci-fi movies are a masterclass ...

After the Justice Department released millions of pages of documents linked to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, social media users touted supposed revelations in the files and ...