OpenAI on December 16 announced FrontierScience, a new benchmark designed to evaluate artificial intelligence systems on expert-level scientific reasoning across physics, chemistry and biology, as AI ...

A body of Indiana social workers is backing Indiana University lecturer Jessica Adams after the university removed her from teaching a class over her approach to white supremacy. The Indiana Chapter ...

The same pulling force that causes “tears” in a glass of wine also shapes embryos. It’s another example of how genes exploit mechanical forces for growth and development. Sip a glass of wine, and you ...

For some, social media is a place to engage with politics, whether it’s to share information about protests or learn about candidates for office. But how valuable do Americans think social media is ...

The social model of disability frames disability as something that is created by society, rather than only by medical conditions or physical differences. The model acknowledges that people have ...

Singapore-based AI startup Sapient Intelligence has developed a new AI architecture that can match, and in some cases vastly outperform, large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks, all ...

Researchers at Apple have released an eyebrow-raising paper that throws cold water on the “reasoning” capabilities of the latest, most powerful large language models. In the paper, a team of machine ...

As rates of depression and suicide in youth spike, experts are asking whether social media makes kids depressed — or whether depressed kids simply spend more time on social media? A new study provides ...

Chatbots can make quick work of routine e-commerce customer service tasks and information retrieval. Sephora’s Smart Skin Scan, for example, provides personalized product recommendations, while Lowe’s ...

What feels right is often wrong. Common sense offers comfort by simplifying the world into intuitive, familiar terms, but it often masks deeply ingrained cultural, class and gender biases. These ...

Participating in social activities can be beneficial as you age. It can help with your mental health, as well as maintaining your overall well-being and independence. Older adults may find various ...

OpenAI’s recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate, or make things up — in fact, they hallucinate more than several of ...