For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only as good as the data it has seen. Feed it more, train it longer, and it performs better. Feed it less, and it ...

Computer scientists and weather scientists have taken the first steps toward creating an AI agent capable of analyzing and answering questions in natural language, such as English, about data from ...

In high-stakes settings like medical diagnostics, users often want to know what led a computer vision model to make a certain prediction, so they can determine whether to trust its output. Concept ...

Women’s Day is a moment to recognise women who have shaped different fields, including technology and artificial intelligence ...

First author Canyu Chen led a multi-institution research team in developing a scalable approach to training AI agents without sacrificing users’ data privacy.

Anthropic's AI-powered computer-coding platform Claude can easily help modernize complicated programs written in COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language), seemingly posing a threat to IBM's (NYSE: ...

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

80 years ago, ENIAC was presented to the world. Not the first, but the most important computer of its time. Today is World Computer Day. It is celebrated annually on February 15th, the anniversary of ...

Learning to read reshapes how the brain processes language. New research from Baycrest and the University of São Paulo shows that learning to read fundamentally changes how the brain responds to ...

In some situations, it’s necessary to change the keyboard, for example, if you want to write in a foreign language such as Spanish and need special characters, such as the tilde above a capital letter ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...