Whispers of a closed-door demo in coastal California set the mood: a handful of elite mathematicians, a whiteboard full of Olympiad-grade problems, and an AI that refused to blink. Whether or not cameras were rolling, the verified signal came from elsewhere: artificial intelligence appears poised to cross a line many thought would hold for years. ...
Artificial intelligence has slipped into our lives so quietly that many of us only notice it when something goes spectacularly wrong – or astonishingly right. In just a decade, systems that once struggled to recognize a cat in a photo now help design drugs, steer cars, and even draft laws. For scientists, AI is ...
Some of the most intriguing advances in AI aren’t happening while systems are “awake.” They unfold off the clock, inside models that conjure make‑believe worlds and rehearse what might happen next. This isn’t sci‑fi flourish; it’s a practical response to hard problems like scarce data, expensive robots, and brittle algorithms that forget what they learned ...
