Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning.

But what happens when those machines learn to beat us at our own games? When, for the first time in our history, humans have ...

A new field promises to usher in a new era of using machine learning and computer vision to tackle small and large-scale questions about the biology of organisms around the globe. A new field promises ...

Quantum computers could solve certain problems that would take traditional classical computers an impractically long time to solve. At the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), ...

History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of ...

Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and ...

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...

The soaring cost and limited supply of computer memory is slowing some projects — and spurring creative approaches.

Computers were once the size of an entire room. That's right. A single, low-power computer that was significantly weaker than the phone you carry in your pocket today was also ridiculously larger. But ...

OpenAI is merging its three popular tools into one desktop app.

Modern-day LLMs are "fiction machines," designed not to be truthful but to make sense. What can we expect from these machines, and what are their limitations?