Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

Optimism, especially about our ability to solve big problems, is in brutally short supply these days. The gloom might be at ...

A classic bar challenge using 10 coins arranged in a triangle. The goal is to flip the triangle upside down by moving only three coins. Simple rules, clever solution, and almost everyone gets it wrong ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

A common argument against the use of AI in critical decision-making is that it has no feelings or emotions. Yet AI is unmatched in scale, prediction and silent adaptation. It can process vast amounts ...

Foreword: I wish solving housing affordability fit into a 30-second TikTok or Instagram reel. It just doesn’t. But if we’re serious about fixing homeownership in America, we need to move past ...

SIMA 2, which can figure out how to solve problems inside virtual worlds, could lead to more general-purpose agents and better robots. Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called ...

When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or ...

In the weeks since the October 8 cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, establishing and maintaining security in Gaza has become a crucial test. Already in the days after the deal was announced, Hamas ...

China’s Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, detailed technical information around its new model, Ring-1T, which the company said is “the first open-source reasoning model with one trillion total ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) If you’ve used current AI models, you know that they can’t reason like a human. “But so what?,” you might say, “they’ll get there eventually.” I don’t think so. Today I have ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...