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

What rises to the top on social media isn’t what’s most true or most useful. It’s what best serves the system underneath. Of ...

Contributing columnist Larry Smith explores how religion-based AI chatbots will influence people seeking answers about faith.

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.

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the ...

The algorithm year did not arrive with noise. That is exactly why it matters. Because the biggest changes are no longer announced, they are installed, accepted, and normalised. And by the time we ...

Agentic AI challenges the foundational tenets of our legal frameworks, which have historically relied on clear lines of ...

An easy way to do this is to go to Settings & privacy > Content preferences, and then open the “Unfollow people and groups” ...

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...

Young adults reported elevated levels of loneliness even though they had strong social connections, which may be due to rapid ...

Video editing firm Kapwing highlights AI slop's definition as careless, low-quality content generated by computer ...