Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

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Yoshua Bengio, professor at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, during the C2 Montreal event in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on May 24, 2023. Credit - Graham Hughes/Bloomberg—Getty Images On ...

The tiny worm Caenorhabditis elegans has a brain just about the width of a human hair. Yet this animal’s itty-bitty organ coordinates and computes complex movements as the worm forages for food. “When ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — The University of Illinois System officially named the next Chancellor of its Urbana-Champaign campus. In a news release, System President Tim Killeen said Charles Lee Isbell Jr.

Indian-American computer scientist Pradeep Khosla has been named the chairperson of University of Rwanda (UR)'s board of ...

Tarleton David Williams, a retired computer scientist, public servant, and government and computer consultant, died Monday, March 31. He was 94. He lived by the Kappa Alpha Psi motto, “Achievement in ...