AI makes work faster, but it can also create a dangerous illusion of progress. “Accomplishment hallucination” is what happens ...
B, a 3-billion-parameter AI model, is challenging OpenAI, Google and DeepSeek on math and coding benchmarks while reigniting the debate over AI scaling, benchmark gaming and small-model reasoning.
A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't spoken more than monosyllables in years began initiating conversation ...
When an animal's environment changes faster than the animal can adapt, its chances of survival can flatline. The same is true ...
The tools people outgrow fastest are the ones that worked perfectly when they first started. That is not a criticism of those tools. It is an observation ...
A team of nine researchers at Sina Weibo has introduced VibeThinker-3B, a compact language model that reportedly matches or ...
Flatiron Telescope uses AI and transparent SQL to turn real-world evidence into quick turnaround oncology research and ...
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 ...
Two years ago, we published a list of 5 predictions about AI in the year 2030. The article sparked a lot of fascinating (and ...
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The Mirage of the Gifted Child

Critics say the systems we use to educate the brightest kids are flawed and exclusionary. What if it’s the very premise of giftedness that’s faulty?
The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they ...
A survey of Middlebury students broke AI usage into two categories: augmentation, for tasks that enhance learning, and automation, for tasks that required minimal effort.