The National Bureau of Economic Research has published a new working paper by economists Ali Shourideh (Carnegie Mellon ...

Choosing the right method for multimodal AI—systems that combine text, images, and more—has long been trial and error. Emory ...

Algorithms shape our lives and steal our focus. Rituals can help us not only regain control of our attention; they're also a ...

Every day, algorithms make consequential decisions about millions of people's lives—who gets approved for a mortgage, who is called back for a job interview, who receives priority care in a hospital ...

Karthik Sankaranarayanan trained in two quite different scientific subfields as a graduate student and as a postdoctoral ...

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Imagine trying to design a key for a lock that is constantly changing its shape. That is the exact challenge we face in ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

AI hardware needs to become more brain-like to meet the growing energy demands of real-world applications, according to researchers. In a study published in Frontiers in Science, scientists from ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.