Artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day, but it still has its limits. One of the biggest challenges has been teaching advanced AI models to reason, which means solving problems step by ...

For most people, swallowing is second nature, but how does it occur, and why do some people have difficulty with it?

AI can transfer strange qualities through seemingly unrelated training—from a love of owls to something more dangerous ...

Researchers have explained how large language models like GPT-3 are able to learn new tasks without updating their parameters, despite not being trained to perform those tasks. They found that these ...

In human cells, there are about 20,000 genes on a two-meter DNA strand—finely coiled up in a nucleus about 10 micrometers in ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model can predict a person's biological age — the state of their body and how they're aging — from a selfie. The model, dubbed FaceAge, estimates how old a person ...

When Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced its latest open-source large language model (LLM) on July 23rd, it claimed that the most powerful version of Llama 3.1 had “state-of-the-art ...

Jacob Dreyer is an editor for business, economics, politics and law at Palgrave (a subsidiary of Springer Nature), based in Shanghai, China. The views expressed here are his own. An increasing number ...