My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...

The line between human and artificial intelligence is growing ever more blurry. Since 2021, AI has deciphered ancient texts that have puzzled scholars for centuries, detected cancers missed by human ...

A teenager who uses cannabis only occasionally might not see it as a big deal. Their parents might not either. But new national data suggests that even infrequent use is linked to significant problems ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new arms race and the centerpiece of defense modernization efforts across multiple countries, including the United States. Yet, despite the surge in AI investments, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

In pharmacoepidemiological research, misclassification is a concern with claims-based algorithms (also called computable phenotypes). Validating them is crucial, particularly within regulatory ...

The issue is this week’s Asked & Answered. Nearly a month after a cyberattack hit Georgia’s SNAP benefits call center, the hotline system remains down, and some folks still can’t access their SNAP ...

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