For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only as good as the data it has seen. Feed it more, train it longer, and it performs better. Feed it less, and it ...

Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab.

In a clip that resurfaced recently, the polarizing influencer explained why. Books, he argued, are too slow. His brain is “far too advanced” to enjoy such a low-velocity medium: “I need action. I need ...

Karan Mahajan’s new novel, “The Complex,” tracks the fortunes of a political family in a rapidly changing India.

Hamilton is a Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and experimental fighter test pilot Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton — former Chief of AI Test and Operations for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force — led the ...

Examining brain plasticity and its implications for development, aging, and brain injury recovery.

The dominant theory in neuroscience has been that the sensory processing circuits in our brain are finalized in early childhood and fixed afterward. A recently published study, however, overturned ...

Matrescence refers to the intense biological, psychological, and social changes a woman undergoes throughout pregnancy, birth ...

After changing how we eat and how we trip, the author returns to his garden — and the page — to examine the mystery of consciousness.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. It was the plume poppies in Michael Pollan’s garden that seeded his new book. On a warm September afternoon, he ...

Expert birdwatchers have brain differences that may underlie their remarkable ability to identify unfamiliar birds and suggest that birdwatching can reshape the brain in much the same way as learning ...