Cartpole is often used in reinforcement learning research: it's easy to simulate and fast to run, but unlike pattern recognition tasks, it requires constant, fine-grained adjustments rather than a ...

AI's growing use in cyberattacks poses a significant threat to online security, with sophisticated scams impacting businesses and individuals globally. While AI lowers the cost of deception, advanced ...

AI optimists envision a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpasses human intelligence, but the path remains riddled with scientific and logistical hurdles.

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

The term has left the industry divided, with definitions shaped as much by marketing as by technical consensus.

One example involved a system built by a summer intern for his own project work. The tool geolocates devices within a drawing set and links them to a digital twin of the facility. Instead of searching ...

There is much debate about the role of social media in young people's lives. But what do adolescents themselves think about it? In any case, they feel they are not being listened to enough, according ...

Classiq, the leading quantum computing software company, Comcast and AMD today announced the completion of a groundbreaking trial aimed at improving Internet delivery by leveraging quantum algorithms ...

By explicitly modeling each step of a problem and gradually fading away supports, teachers can give students a clear path to mastering new content.

The currents of the oceans, the roiling surface of the sun, and the clouds of smoke billowing off a forest fire—all are ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

While I write about many video games in this job, there’s one that has become more mainstream than practically every other. That would be Wordle, part of the New York Times’ slate of daily games that ...