AI has become uncannily good at aping human conversational capabilities. New research suggests its powers of mimicry go a lot further, making it possible...
Compared to other primates, our brains are exceptionally large. Why?
A new study comparing neurons from different primates pinpointed several genetic changes unique to humans...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI Can Now Create a Replica of Your Personality
James O'Donnell | MIT Technology Review
"Imagine sitting down with an AI model for a spoken...
Getting AIs to work together could be a powerful force multiplier for the technology. Now, Microsoft researchers have invented a new language to help...
COMPUTING
IBM Boosts the Amount of Computation You Can Get Done on Quantum Hardware
John Timmer | Ars Technica
"There's a general consensus that we won't be...
In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases,...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Why AI Could Eat Quantum Computing’s Lunch
Edd Gent | MIT Technology Review
"The scale and complexity of quantum systems that can be simulated using...