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AI optimists envision a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpasses human intelligence, but the path remains riddled with scientific and logistical hurdles.

Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

After the Justice Department released millions of pages of documents linked to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, social media users touted supposed revelations in the files and ...

Gemini said Blue Grid Group appoints neuroscientist Dr. Katarina Gospic as Chairwoman, uniting brain science with AI ...

AI became powerful because of interacting mechanisms: neural networks, backpropagation and reinforcement learning, attention, training on databases, and special computer chips.

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham is well-known in the tech and startup spaces for his influence and contribution to the early web. Here, we take a look at the successful businessman's views on how to ...

Most polymers don’t mix—and that’s the point. Polymer alloys succeed by engineering the interface: use thermodynamics to predict separation, processing to sculpt morphology, and compatibilizers to ...

Historian Philip Decker, mathematician Victor Geadah, computer scientist Sayash Kapoor, and literary scholar Eliana Rozinov are this year’s Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellows.