Thomas Mulligan breaks down the legendary Millennium Prize Problems, exploring the elite mathematical riddles that carry a ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Last month, OpenAI announced that its ...

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 examines the conflicting logic within the famous Newcomb's Paradox dilemma.

A mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for more than 10 years in the physics of complex systems has finally been ...

At SXSW London last week I gave a talk called “Five things you need to know about AI,” in which I shared what I think are the biggest themes in AI right now. I pulled a few th ...

It's too early to say if AI is frying our brains — but the research so far doesn't look good.

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any ...

Google and OpenAI have solved decades-old problems — but the scientific community is beginning to discuss whether limits should be placed on the technology ...

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

Memory is a sponge. It soaks up materials from other times, other places, and leaks it all over the moment in question.  Ian McEwan (2025: 83)Memory is a sponge. It soaks up materials from other times ...

AI systems are increasingly helping out with math research, and this is now appearing in relevant data. A chart shared by Jasper ...