Some philosophers think that there is a hard problem of consciousness: No matter how much scientists learns about neural processes, they can never explain why all this processing is accompanied by ...

Most people don’t think twice about the water running through their home, but hard water has a way of making itself known — slowly, subtly, and usually at the worst possible moment. It’s the kind of ...

Of the 800m people using ChatGPT every week, only a vanishingly small number will have seriously considered whether ChatGPT might have experiences worth caring about. AI welfare — the project of ...

The nation relies on cyber systems for commerce, critical infrastructure, national security, and most facets of daily life. However, the growing scale and complexity of cyber technologies–coupled with ...

Yishan Wong left social media to tackle climate change. His company now operates a forest carbon accelerator spanning five ...

Chapter 2 explored key factors underpinning difficult cyber challenges. This chapter goes on to list and discuss the list of cyber hard problems—well-defined problems where progress toward their ...

What if the toughest problems humanity faces—those that stump our brightest minds and stretch the limits of human ingenuity—could be tackled by a single, purpose-built system? Enter Gemini Deep Think, ...

Every week quantum computing hits a new milestone: more qubits, fewer errors, better readout of results. But will these breakthroughs help solve the advanced computational problems facing energy, like ...