The Deck Is Not Rigged: Poker and the Limits of AI
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These Scientists Just Completed a 3D ‘Google Earth’ for the Brain
Human brain maps are a dime a dozen these days. Maps that detail neurons in a certain region. Maps that draw out functional connections...
Airships Are No Longer a Relic of the Past; You Could Ride in One...
As concern over climate change and rising temperatures grows, the airline industry is taking heat (pun intended). Flying accounts for 2.5 percent of global...
Why Bitcoin Will Be Crucial in Our Cashless Future
Cold, hard cash is king. But maybe not much longer. In many countries, cash transactions are all but disappearing.
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Construction of the World’s Biggest Nuclear Fusion Plant Just Started in France
Fusion power promises to provide limitless green energy using cheap and abundant fuel, but it’s a long-running joke that it’s always 20 years away....
This AI Could Bring Us Computers That Can Write Their Own Software
When OpenAI first published a paper on their new language generation AI, GPT-3, the hype was slow to build. The paper indicated GPT-3, the...
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16 Ways Coronavirus May Change the Way We Look at the...
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Dark Energy: Map Gives Clue About What It Is—but Deepens Dispute About the Cosmic...
Dark energy is one of the greatest mysteries in science today. We know very little about it, other than it is invisible, it fills...
A Year After Gene Therapy, Boys With Muscular Dystrophy Are Healthier and Stronger
Two and a half years ago, a study published in Science Advances detailed how the gene editing tool CRISPR/Cas-9 repaired genetic mutations related to...
Cars Will Soon Be Able to Sense and React to Your Emotions
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Towards ‘Eternal Sunshine’? New Links Found Between Memory and Emotion
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A New Brain-Inspired Learning Method for AI Saves Memory and Energy
Despite the frequent analogies, today’s AI operates on very different principles to the human brain. Now researchers have proposed a new learning method more...
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