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At the end of 2024, no AI had even managed to place 100th in one of the major competitions. But they have since vaulted up the leaderboards. AIs have already proved that they can make superhuman ...

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To his credit, Kasy is a realist here. He doesn’t presume that any of these proposals will be easy to implement. Or that it will happen overnight, or even in the near future. The troubling question at ...

Most of us probably remember the storyline of Back to the Future: Part II. Biff Tannen, the movie’s most reviled character, steals Doc Brown’s DeLorean-based time machine, travels into the past, and ...

Mathematicians may have a better way to measure agreement across different datasets. Agreement affects reproducibility, meta-analysis, and prediction to fill in missing data points. We need a more ...

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One of the top creatives behind The Simpsons opens up about the long-running animated sitcom's apparent ability to predict ...

Farmers and ranchers looking for answers about their future are most likely getting Magic 8 Ball-like answers these days. It’s hazy. Ask again later. Your guess is as good as anyone’s. But one ...

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