Like more than a few faculty colleagues before her, computer scientist Amber Wagner, Ph.D., started out by creating an AI assignment that was designed to flop. Teaching a course on the C++ programming ...

Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word. These statements betray a conceptual error: Large language models do not, cannot, and ...

With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...

Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology. Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the ...

The experimental model won't compete with the biggest and best, but it could tell us why they behave in weird ways—and how trustworthy they really are. ChatGPT maker OpenAI has built an experimental ...

The AI industry exploded in late 2022, following the wild success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT release in November of that year. Generative AI tools — from chatbots to remarkably lifelike music and ...

Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk. Hide it behind a wooden board. Now move the board toward the glass. If the board keeps going past the glass, as if it weren’t there, ...

The CEO of one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence labs just said the quiet part out loud: that nobody really knows how AI works. In an essay published to his personal website, Anthropic ...