In essence, it’s a type of symmetry breaking. Any two processes that act as activator and inhibitor will produce periodic ...

Whistleblowers also accused the charity's leadership of misusing public funds and failing to deliver on its mission.

These mathematically inspired designs like leopard spots and tiger stripes are as interesting as they are intricate. But how ...

Scientists have been trying for decades to crack the code of how different animal patterns emerge from a mass of developing ...

For decades, scientists have been trying to work out how animals develop their unique spots and stripes. Now, they may have ...

As far back as 1980, the American philosopher John Searle distinguished between strong and weak AI. Weak AIs are merely ...

It took an emotionally complex man to first imagine a world in which machines could ‘think’, writes Satyen K. I don’t recall ...

We’ve trapped AI in a Turing test, measuring it by how well it imitates us instead of how much it reveals beyond us.

By this metric, many chatbots are already "intelligent." You can test this yourself at Turing Test Live. Recent studies from ...

Perhaps the most exceptional mind to think about thinking machines before 1956 was the British mathematician Alan Turing.

Some of today’s most capable AI systems are refined versions of large language models (LLMs) that predict text on the basis ...