It’s not what we can or cannot say that matters – rather, it’s whether what we say can get any visibility at all under the US-specific algorithm We tend to think of censorship as the direct ...

The purpose of the media is to teach the public how to think. This claim might offend the sensibilities of those who believe that America is a nation of independent minds. But no mind is independent, ...

new video loaded: I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain transcript “Our brains are being melted by the algorithm.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “Attention is infrastructure.” “Those algorithms are ...

Apple’s recent AI research paper, “The Illusion of Thinking”, has been making waves for its blunt conclusion: even the most advanced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) collapse on complex tasks. But not ...

Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global security disaster? You might certainly get that impression from a lot of news coverage, the latest of which reports new estimates ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Targeted Tracer Research and Development Laboratory, Frontiers Science Center for Disease-Related Molecular Network, West China Hospital of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a ...

Before he graduated from university, Jacob Jackson founded the AI coding assistant TabNine in 2018. Jackson, a computer science student, wanted to reduce the repetitive, sometimes boring tasks that a ...

The following lecture was delivered in March 2023 at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy as part of a benefit conference to raise funds to support public ...

A classic quote from Dante’s Divine Comedy is ‘Ahi serva Italia, di dolore ostello, nave senza nocchiero in gran tempesta’ (Ah enslaved Italy, vale of tears, ship in great storm with no helmsman).

Social media apps regularly present teens with algorithmically selected content often described as “for you”, suggesting, by implication, that the curated content is not just “for you” but also “about ...