Examining the nature and origin of human intelligence and the intersection with machine intelligence in the past, present and (posited) future.

Emo, short for "emotional hardcore," emerged in the mid-1980s. It evolved into a cornucopia of styles, from indie rock to pop-punk. Pioneers like Rites of Spring and Embrace sowed the seeds, while ...

“I think the shelf life of the current [AI] paradigm is fairly short, probably three to five years,” LeCun added. “We’re going to see the emergence of a new paradigm for AI architectures, which may ...

However, being taller and more muscular comes with greater evolutionary costs, as a male must eat a lot and also be physically healthy both during childhood and as an adult to achieve and maintain ...

Evolution = optimization Evolution is the driving force for every organism. Given its environment, an organism adapts, survives, and withstands selective pressure. "Adaptation can be seen as an ...

To understand what occurred along the vertebrate evolutionary tree between fish and mammals, the researchers looked at the activity of those same enhancers in frogs and lizards. In frog tadpoles ...

The secondary structure proportions of the same gene may vary between different species, possibly due to evolutionary divergence. Furthermore, variations in secondary structure proportions were ...

"Our study with chimpanzees clearly shows that they share some similarities in this phenomenon, suggesting the deep evolutionary origin of contagious urination." The team decided to study the ...

“Yet, as imperfect as it may be, the kinase evolutionary tree is widely used to understand how it interacts with other drugs. Improving this tree, or improving trees of other important protein ...