They call it a “world model”, an essential tool to help AI systems make sense of the complex, unpredictable physical spaces into which many will eventually be put to work. The company argues that a ...

One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

How do you know anything is real? Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see.

Minnesota’s standoff with the Trump administration amid its immigration crackdown in the state has made a political tinderbox of the Twin Cities, as devolving clashes between protesters and federal ...

Course-based ideological and political education (CBIPE) serves as a vital pathway for fulfilling the fundamental mission of fostering virtue through education. Simulation-based experimental teaching, ...

If such a simulation were possible, the simulated universe could itself give rise to life, which in turn might create its own simulation. This recursive possibility makes it seem highly unlikely that ...

Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality. By ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Spin-polarized magnetic systems, generated by the interaction of photoactive molecules ...

The good news is that you, and everyone you love, will die long before it might happen. Now for the bad news. Someday, in the far-distant future, eons beyond its 13.8-billion-year adolescence, the ...