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The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human.

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Within a week of his inauguration, President Trump issued an executive order to develop “The Iron Dome for America” ...

Neural networks, from GPT-4 to Stable Diffusion, are built by wiring together perceptrons, which are highly simplified ...

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As “general intelligence” remains out of reach, OpenAI is leaning more on application-specific pitches. Health advice is its ...

They’re turning their backs on a technology thought to have saved millions of lives—with the potential to save many more.

It’s the first such models it’s launched in over five years, as pressure in the US grows to respond to China’s dominance in ...

Suzanne Kite’s AI art installations, for example, model a Lakota framework of data sovereignty: intelligence that emerges ...

Artificial intelligence models that can discover drugs and write code still fail at puzzles a lay person can master in ...

Ford announced plans for a $30,000 electric pickup and a new manufacturing process to cut costs across EV models.