The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human.

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As “general intelligence” remains out of reach, OpenAI is leaning more on application-specific pitches. Health advice is its ...

They’re turning their backs on a technology thought to have saved millions of lives—with the potential to save many more.

Semiconductor powerhouse TSMC is under increasing pressure to expand abroad and play a security role for the island. Those ...

President Trump has proposed building an antimissile “golden dome” around the United States. But do cinematic spectacles ...

Neural networks, from GPT-4 to Stable Diffusion, are built by wiring together perceptrons, which are highly simplified ...

Ford announced plans for a $30,000 electric pickup and a new manufacturing process to cut costs across EV models.

Within a week of his inauguration, President Trump issued an executive order to develop “The Iron Dome for America” ...

It’s a lot of hype, but Altman is not alone in his Flavor Flav-ing here. Last week Mark Zuckerberg published a long memo ...

It’s the first such models it’s launched in over five years, as pressure in the US grows to respond to China’s dominance in ...

The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes and for humans to miss those mistakes has been on full display in the US legal ...