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Ajdina Halilovic is a science writer and researcher based in London, UK. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a ...

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La Géométrie, a short appendix that appeared in Descartes’ famous Discourse on the Method, laid the foundations of analytic ...

With AI, “we are in the process not of re-creating human biology,” said Thomas Naselaris, a neuroscientist at the University ...

An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Neural networks power today’s AI boom. To understand them, all we need is a map, a cat and a few thousand dimensions.

AI researchers are using techniques inspired by neuroscience to study how language models work — and to reveal how perplexing they can be.

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Technology has forever served as science’s toolbox. But now that AI is being used to develop questions and methods as well, ...

Hallucinations / A common (but controversial) term of art for undesirable outputs produced by generative AI, such as when ...