And then it got me.” A handful of decades and an MIT physics doctorate later, Tan is the chief science officer (CSO) of ...

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.

anthropomorphism: When humans tend to give nonhuman objects humanlike characteristics. In AI, this can include believing a ...

Today's AI agents are a primitive approximation of what agents are meant to be. True agentic AI requires serious advances in reinforcement learning and complex memory.

CERES program updates include operational satellite instruments, algorithm advancements, machine learning applications, and ongoing missions measuring Earth’s energy budget and climate system changes.

Maintainers and developers are now using AI to help build Linux. Simultaneously, Rust has graduated to being a co-equal language with C for mainstream Linux development. However, the programming world ...

Smart home tech brands will often label everything as "AI," but not all of it will actually be. Conversational voice ...

Fully functional quantum computers remain out of reach, but optimism across the field is rising. At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in December, researchers and executives ...

A review of the military’s Family Advocacy Program shows that Incident Determination Committees make administrative abuse ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...