In 1782, Alessandro Volta was the first to use the term "semiconducting" to describe the electrical properties of certain materials. In 1833, Michael Faraday observed that the resistance of silver ...

Generative AI, the transformative technology of the moment, exploded onto the scene with the arrival in late 2022 of ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbox developed by the company OpenAI. After only five ...

There have been many questions arising around the potential returns seen from artificial intelligence and generative AI. As we reported here last month, there is growing nervousness among board-level ...

Here’s how pinning a utopian vision for AI on LLMs kicked off the hype cycle that’s causing fears of a bubble today. Each time you’ve heard a borderline outlandish idea of what AI will be capable of, ...

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past? Credit...Photo illustration by enigmatriz ...

In a world where we seem to have less and less in common with our neighbors, it’s crucial to focus on what we share. So, here’s an easy one: We’re all human. But wait — what does that mean? Beyond the ...

Sharrona Pearl receives funding from Interfaith America. In all three cases, the authorities had the wrong people. In all three, it was face recognition technology that told them they were right. Law ...