University of Leicester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Just as calculators took over the tedious number-crunching in maths a few decades ago, artificial intelligence (AI) is ...

AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games—and other worlds—deeply immersive. First, a confession. I only got into playing video games a little over a year ago (I know, I know). A ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine you had a friend who gave different answers to the same question, depending on how you asked it. “What’s the capital of Peru?” ...