US President Donald Trump has declared that artificial intelligence should now be called “super intelligence”. Columnist ...

What happens when human logic meets computer precision in chess This breakdown reveals a surprising move that most players ...

An AI platform that ‘hallucinates’ is not guilty of a human disorder or dishonesty, but has simply generated an ‘unsupported output’. Likewise, ‘goals’, which suggest purpose, are merely specified ...

A hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what ...

Children will deploy all sorts of tactics to avoid going to bed. Catherine Heymans’s youngest had a canny one: to distract his mum, an astronomer at the University of Edinburgh, UK, he asked her meaty ...

Beginning with Conway’s 1970 Game of Life, the video traces how simple computer rules developed into increasingly sophisticated evolution simulations. Programs such as Life Engine allow mutation and ...

Future Marines recite the oath of enlistment at Military Entrance Processing Station, Salt Lake City, Utah, on Oct. 24, 2022. (Cpl. Lydia Gordon/U.S. Marine Corps) Fearing that its new plans for the U ...

Just a few months ago, I could barely get an AI agent to open the Chess app on my Mac, much less actually play a game of it. But after testing the all-new ChatGPT super-app, I can report that the days ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Playing chess can be challenging, fun, and at times frustrating. Garry Kasparov called the game “mental torture.” With virtually limitless possibilities, chess offers unparalleled depth, and you could ...

In times past, when we wanted to know which team would win the World Cup, we had to turn to seers with crystal balls, use divination via tea leaves, or hope for Paul the Octopus to tell us what would ...

Netflix has made its biggest move into live football yet by securing the Spanish rights to broadcast the 2030 World Cup, for which Spain are the co-hosts and defending champions. Netflix’s ...