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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 ...
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Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of ...
For decades, the global economy has promised convergence. The message has been straightforward: open your markets, liberalise ...
In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, " The Matrix ," a computer hacker named Neo finds that ...
Among some people, it changed their lifestyles, brought comfort in daily lives, improved health, education, and business.
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 ...
Scotia Baker describes GIFT as a mathematical structure that connects physical laws, moral behavior, and computational logic.