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In what must be the greatest scientific paper of all time, Maximilien Berthet and Kojiro Suzuki attacked the problem with the ...

Training artificial intelligence to enforce even seemingly straightforward rules—like balls and strikes in Major League ...

AI companies are hiring philosophy graduates to help them understand the nature of consciousness, whether it can be ...

The Trump administration wants a useful quantum computer in two years. Microsoft wants one in three. Independent researchers ...

Summary: Patients surviving severe traumatic brain injuries often enter states designated as Prolonged Disorders of ...

Artificial intelligence can process information with remarkable sophistication, but can it ever possess consciousness?

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Animal psychologists have found that giraffes can mentally combine small sums of objects, but can't perform the subtractive equivalent.

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James Webb found Neptune's moon Nereid has an unusual icy surface, suggesting it formed alongside the planet instead of being captured later.

As AI-generated art and writing proliferate, legal systems worldwide confront a deeper question: can machines be recognised ...