For many years, online users shared an alleged quote from physicist Albert Einstein, claiming he once said, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." The ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Astronomers have detected a collision between two black holes in unprecedented detail, offering the clearest view yet into the nature of these cosmic oddities and confirming long-held predictions made ...

Gilles Lellouche co-stars in Cédric Jimenez's Venice Film Festival closer, set in a Paris of the near future. By Jordan Mintzer For a movie that’s mainly about algorithms and the havoc they wreak on ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Émile Zola, the French novelist, once quipped: “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” The very same can be said about geniuses, and, in fact, it should be said ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

When the maritime trade union Nautilus International asked memberswhat they thought of AI at a forum in January, there was some positive sentiment: “We shouldn’t automatically assume there will be ...