By now, ChatGPT, Claude, and other large language models have accumulated so much human knowledge that they're far from simple answer-generators; they can also express abstract concepts, such as ...

Blaise Agüera y Arcus argues that prediction is the fundamental principle behind intelligence and “may be the whole story”.

A team of researchers has found a way to steer the output of large language models by manipulating specific concepts inside these models. The new method could lead to more reliable, more efficient, ...

AI optimists envision a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpasses human intelligence, but the path remains riddled with scientific and logistical hurdles.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

BROOKLINE — As investigators continued working Wednesday in the fatal shooting of an acclaimed MIT professor, stunned colleagues at the university where he worked and neighbors on the quiet Brookline ...

The professor was shot “multiple times” at this home in Brookline, Massachusetts, according to officials, and died on Tuesday morning in the hospital. The Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office has ...

Authorities in New England are investigating the brutal assassination of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology nuclear science and physics professor who was gunned down in his own home, Us Weekly ...

A prominent nuclear science professor at MIT was shot and killed inside his home in a swanky Massachusetts neighborhood Monday night, with police mum on details of the tragic slaying. Nuno Loureiro, ...

A 47-year-old MIT professor has died after being shot in his Brookline home Monday night, according to law enforcement officials. Officers from the Massachusetts State Police and Brookline Police ...

This video explored how an MIT computer model from 1973 predicted the collapse of modern society and why its warnings aligned suspiciously well with elite agendas. It showed how the Club of Rome ...