Modern-day LLMs are "fiction machines," designed not to be truthful but to make sense. What can we expect from these machines, and what are their limitations?

Humans and animals like the same sounds, new research reveals, proving Charles Darwin correct. The findings show that people showed preferences for calls that other species find the most attractive.

New research led by a University of Wyoming archaeologist near an ancient encampment in South America challenges a relatively new but widely accepted theory that the people who made and used Clovis ...

The question of origins has long bedevilled the study of pandemics. In pre-modern times, outbreaks of infectious disease were ...

Humans are actually limited in how much protein they can metabolize for energy, meaning early humans really needed a more well-rounded diet to survive.

By scanning brains while people actively took intelligence tests, neuroscientists discovered that high test scores are linked ...

What can you see right now? This might seem like a silly question, but what enters your consciousness is not the whole story when it comes to vision. A great deal of visual processing in the brain ...

Humans really do rule the world. We took over fast and far, more than any other wild vertebrates. We inhabit nearly every ...

NVDA's Jensen Huang says revenue equals tokens/watt. Tokens/output is only constrained by watts/power. Power is scarce. If AI ...

After recently writing about Singularity in this column, I felt it was time to address the elephant in the room – the difference between Artificial Intelligence and Human Consciousness in the Age of ...

The death of Jürgen Habermas has left philosophy and the Left poorer. Central to his work was a profound critique of ...

One the most influential thinkers in post-war Germany, Jürgen Habermas linked philosophy and political action throughout his ...