Technology

The word “open” is often thrown around in describing AI transparency, but the companies and groups calling for it must themselves be open about their practices

A Brookings Institution report warns that energy-hungry artificial intelligence tech will worsen the climate crisis

Experts are starting to plan for the moment when a quantum computer large enough to crack the backbone of the math that keeps things secret will be turned on.

A new mathematical proof helps show whether a sequence of numbers is “pseudorandom”

A speculative survey about AI’s future may have been biased toward an alarmist perspective

An alleged voice recording of racist remarks exemplifies the challenges of our new AI normal

Researchers have doubted how useful AI protein-structure tool AlphaFold will be in discovering medicines—now they are learning how to deploy it effectively

A new study used machine learning to “autocomplete” the life trajectories of six million Danish people—and forecast when they might kick the bucket.

These boarding methods are more efficient, but they come at a cost

Amid the machine-learning boom, model developers have built an all-purpose digital oracle from a trove of big data

Until now computers have failed to solve mathematical problems. But the AI program AlphaGeometry has succeeded in finding proofs for dozens of theorems from the International Mathematical Olympiad

The Biden administration is doling out more money for charging infrastructure because range anxiety is considered a major challenge to Americans’ widespread adoption of electric cars