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A Theory of Dumb

In a paper published last year, Shumailov called this “model collapse,” a process by which an AI system becomes, in his words ...
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...
For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and ...
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The March 23, 1994, death of Luis Donaldo Colosio, a reformer on the cusp of winning the Mexican presidency who promised a ...
This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s series “The New Conspiracy Age,” on how the present boom in conspiracy theories ...
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This theory is known as the Big Bang. And it’s the most widely accepted story of the creation of our Universe. Scientists ...
Humans have the cognitive capacity to infer and reason about the minds and thoughts of other people. Our brains are very good at it—much better than the Large Language Models or LLMs.  Although LLMs ...
When Jacob Irwin asked ChatGPT about faster-than-light (FTL) travel, it didn’t challenge his theory as any expert physicist ...
When it comes to Women and Gender Studies, the University should take a lesson from MIT and regularly offer a survey of feminist theory.
"Plan C for Civilization" takes stock of the amateurs and experts who see promise in using technology to cool the Earth.