To make large language models (LLMs) more accurate when answering harder questions, researchers can let the model spend more time thinking about potential solutions. But common approaches that give ...

Kaitlyn M. Sims receives funding from the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families, the Arnold Ventures Foundation, and the Institute for Humane Studies. A record number of Colorado children died ...

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When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

Some fans were grumpy about the continuation of the Toy Story franchise after the third film felt so conclusive. But after a pretty fun fourth film, people are a little less up in arms about the idea ...

“Toy Story 5” finds Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the rest of the beloved gang facing off against an iPad-like tablet called Lilypad. Stanton said the movie is “not even really about a battle so much as the ...

“Toy Story 5” director Andrew Stanton is defending the ongoing Pixar franchise despite fears from some that it’s being stretched thin with far too many sequels. Speaking to Empire magazine, the ...

I’m walking across my college campus, mahogany leaves crunching beneath my feet, just as they did the year I arrived as an Eventual-English major. I climb the steep steps of William Smith Hall to sit ...

As machines grow more capable of mimicking thought, scientists are racing to decode the mystery that still separates us from them: consciousness. Credit: Shutterstock As AI rapidly advances and ...

Meditate on this Zen Buddhist koan (a paradox used to train Zen Buddhist monks) long enough, promises neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin at the start of his book, and the origins of mind, and perhaps ...

New York decides which 4-year-olds should be designated “gifted.” Many experts think that’s too young. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll look at the continuing challenges that ...

Try using this method to establish the following. You might find it useful to turn some of the examples from the last section into named theorems, as we did with fn_ub_add, or you can insert the ...