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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

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For humans, identifying items in a scene — whether that’s an avocado or an Aventador, a pile of mashed potatoes or an alien mothership — is as simple as looking at them. But for artificial ...

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A brain-computer interface that can translate silent thoughts into spoken words may help speech-impaired people, including ...

Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence. Marisa Shuman challenged her students at the Young Women’s ...