Unraveling the mysteries of how biological organisms function begins with understanding the molecular interactions within and ...

“Imagine a computation that produces a new bit of information in every step, based on the bits that it has computed so far. Over t steps of time, it may generate up to t new bits of information in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107 and — wait for it — 47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy ...

"A kid born today will never be smarter than AI – ever," Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, claims in the Huge Conversations podcast with Cleo Abram. Meanwhile, billions of children worldwide are heading back ...

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A game of Magic: The Gathering begins well before players lay down their first card. As a collectible card game, Magic requires competitive players to select the optimal deck of cards based on how ...

The Turing test has long been an important threshold in evaluating machine intelligence, and OpenAI’s latest LLM GPT-4.5 just aced it. Scientists from the University of California San Diego surmise ...

Abstract: Deterministic Turing machines and their associated complexity measures, by construction, cannot capture the complexity of the output of stochastic processes - like those in the real world.