Virginia Evans’ The Correspondent became a runaway hit for its exploration of a life told through letters. When readers meet Sybil Van Antwerp she’s in her 70s, and she takes readers on a journey ...

A man breached Windsor Castle with a crossbow after his large language model (LLM)-based companion encouraged an assassination plan. A father’s question about pi evolved into more than 300 h of ...

Objective probability estimates the odds of an event occurring through data analysis. It uses concrete measures instead of guesses to provide a reliable forecast.

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...

Skeptics have argued that A.I. can never be truly creative, because it lacks the kind of worldly experiences humans have. But several recent studies have suggested that, in blind tests, many readers ...

Engravings decorating Stone Age tools and figurines could represent the very first records of information, and thus the dawn ...

Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

Right from its inception, technology has exuded both transformative power and potential risks. The last two films in the Mission Impossible franchise, in fact, warn of a malevolent, all-pervasive AI ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...