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Claude Mythos and Project Glasswing: why an AI superhacker has the tech world on alert
13+ hour, 18+ min ago (984+ words) New, more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models are announced pretty regularly these days: the latest version of Chat GPT or Claude or Gemini always has new features and new capabilities that its makers are eager for customers to try out....
Water flow in prairie watersheds is increasingly unpredictable " but AI could help
1+ week, 6+ day ago (914+ words) Assistant Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia Ali Ameli receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation…...
Truth, or misinformation? A statistician explains the challenge of assessing evidence
2+ week, 1+ day ago (937+ words) Professor & Associate Dean, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo Mu Zhu receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. University of Waterloo provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Waterloo provides…...
Popular AIs head-to-head: Open AI beats Deep Seek on sentence-level reasoning
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (878+ words) Manas Gaur receives funding from USISTEF Endowment Fund. Chat GPT and other AI chatbots based on large language models are known to occasionally make things up, including scientific and legal citations. It turns out that measuring how accurate an AI…...
A Ph D is an apprenticeship in research " we can't let AI take that away
1+ mon, 19+ hour ago (829+ words) Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne Toby Murray receives funding from Google, and the Department of Defence. He is Director of the Defence Science Institute, which receives funding from the Commonwealth, Victorian and…...
AI is coming to Olympic judging: what makes it a game changer?
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (434+ words) Associate Professor, Universit" de Li'ge Willem Standaert does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Universit…...
Artificial metacognition: Giving an AI the ability to "think" about its "thinking"
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (617+ words) Ricky J. Sethi has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Google and Amazon. Have you ever had the experience of rereading a sentence multiple times only to realize you still don't understand it? As taught to scores of incoming college…...
AI cannot automate science " a philosopher explains the uniquely human aspects of doing research
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (612+ words) Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany, State University of New York Alessandra Buccella does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no…...
AI agents arrived in 2025 " here's what happened and the challenges ahead in2026
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (677+ words) Thomas "erban von Davier does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Carnegie Mellon University provides…...
The magic of maths: festive puzzles to give your brain "and imagination " a workout
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1149+ words) Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, City St George's, University of London Neil Saunders is a supporter of the Campaign for Mathematical Sciences. City St George's, University of London provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation…...