DNA analysis of cultural artifacts shows diverse biological profiles, but contamination and mixed signals complicate ...

The paper addresses the AI shutdown problem, a long-standing challenge in AI safety. The shutdown problem asks how to design AI systems that will shut down when instructed, will not try to prevent ...

This article explores the potential of large language models (LLMs) in reliability systems engineering, highlighting their ...

Road networks are critical public assets that must be monitored, modeled, and maintained with rigor and efficiency. As agencies face heavier traffic, ...

This important study reports three experiments examining how the subjective experience of task regularities influences perceptual decision-making. Although the evidence linking subjective ratings to ...

Pupil dilation provides a physiological readout of information gain during the brain's internal process of belief updating in the context of associative learning.

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