Slowly repeating bursts of intense radio waves from space have puzzled astronomers since they were discovered in 2022.
In new research, my colleagues and I...
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,...
