anthropomorphism: When humans tend to give nonhuman objects humanlike characteristics. In AI, this can include believing a chatbot is more humanlike and aware than it actually is, like believing it's ...

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AI tools promise that anyone can build apps, so I put that claim to the test. After a few minor bumps, I built a custom ...

OpenAI alum Andrej Karpathy wrote on X that his failure to fully claim the 10x boost of new tools felt like a "skill issue." ...

Multimodal large language models have shown powerful abilities to understand and reason across text and images, but their ...

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With the current mania for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is much anguish about AI replacing jobs. Many university lecturers despair that the pinnacle of education, the ability of a ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.

Microsoft’s New ‘Fara-7B’ AI Agent Rivals GPT-4o, Runs Locally on Your PC Your email has been sent Microsoft has unveiled Fara-7B, a compact computer-use AI model designed to perform tasks the way a ...

Microsoft has introduced Fara-7B, a new 7-billion parameter model designed to act as a Computer Use Agent (CUA) capable of performing complex tasks directly on a user’s device. Fara-7B sets new ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...