For decades, artificial intelligence advanced in careful, mostly linear steps. Researchers built models. Engineers improved performance. Organizations deployed systems to automate specific tasks. Each ...

Every synthetic dataset generated today trains tomorrow's models while potentially poisoning the ecosystem those models ...

Demis Hassabis says the level of investment in some parts of the tech industry had become detached from commercial realities ...

Gordon died in a hotel room with a copy of his favorite children’s book, Goodnight Moon, at his side. Inside, he left ...

Infinite Jest is a kind of geological cross-section of a writer and a literary culture at a moment of major upheaval.

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a ...

Like Cormac McCarthy, Wallace was a serious moralist with zero political vision: witness the cynical collapsing of Left and Right in Infinite Jest and the witlessly two-dimensional image it presents ...

Swiss edtech start-up Sparkli has raised $5 million of pre-seed funding as it scales and commercialises its artificial ...

Sparkli said that education systems often fall behind in teaching modern concepts. The company wants to teach kids about ...