When parents evaluate their children's early school years, a central question often emerges: how do we cultivate a genuine ...

Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds and our world. His 2020 book The Alignment Problem has been praised as one of the best on AI, and ...

OpenAI won't let mathematicians rest. On Oct. 6, the company released a slew of new mathematical results in the form of a massive GitHub repository — an info dump that will take hundreds of human ...

"Mathematics is not a game of chess," one Fields Medal winner told CNET. Mathematicians worry AI companies are just trying to win. Artificial intelligence has profoundly shaken up tech, education, ...

Donald Trump has never been particularly shy about celebrating his own intelligence. Whether discussing political negotiations, economic achievements or his personal accomplishments, the president ...

As the saying goes, play is the work of the child. Children apply knowledge and practice skills by playing. While the amount of play in kindergarten classrooms across the country decreased in the ...

For decades, a fundamental question about the difficulty of computing in high-dimensional spaces has resisted proof. New research resolves this question, removing a major theoretical obstacle to ...

As Canadian educators grapple with falling math scores, some experts urge combining traditional memorization with new inquiry-based learning to improve grades. Trump kicked us off Air Force One and ...

On Tuesday afternoon OpenAI dropped more than 700 manuscripts reporting proofs, solutions and progress on 372 open problems across theoretical research. It will take time for mathematicians to trudge ...

Mathematicians are finally making sense of the biggest event in decades for their field—and it’s stranger than anyone thought. In early September OpenAI posted an inscrutable 166-page solution to the ...

“SOMETIMES PEOPLE have the wrong idea of maths and think that it will be overtaken by computers,” said the mathematician Alain Connes in 2000. He was describing why a team of esteemed mathematicians ...

After causing an uproar among mathematicians, ChatGPT maker OpenAI is donating millions of dollars to a maths foundation. The move comes days after the Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) slammed ...