Yoshua Bengio launches his nonprofit LawZero in an effort to create 'Scientist AI'–a model that hopes to avoid some of AI's most dire risks.

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During his rapid rise, Mayor Zohran Mamdani showcased his mastery of social media, turning the medium into a political agent ...

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ith potential to make powerful AI systems more affordable and accessible, UC Santa Barbara computer scientist Arpit Gupta has earned two major research awards from Google to support his development of ...

Interacting with AI chatbots like ChatGPT can be fun and sometimes useful, but the next level of everyday AI goes beyond answering questions: AI agents carry out tasks for you. Simple AI agents can be ...

Artificial intelligence could change the world but the dearth of women in the booming sector will undermine pledges for inclusive technology, top computer scientist Wendy Hall told AFP on Friday.

John Martinis has already revolutionised quantum computing twice. Now, he is working on another radical rethink of the technology that could deliver machines with unrivalled capabilities ...

The tiny worm Caenorhabditis elegans has a brain just about the width of a human hair. Yet this animal’s itty-bitty organ coordinates and computes complex movements as the worm forages for food. “When ...

Computer scientist David Magerman, a veteran of Renaissance Technologies, argues that AI doomsday predictions are overblown hype. He asserts that current LLM-based AI solutions are largely in failing ...

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