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The oracle problem, why no machine can simply memorize intelligence

Alan Turing's thought experiment conceals a deeper puzzle about the nature of knowledge itself. True intelligence cannot be stored, only computed. Iran threatens US Treasury buyers as Trump’s 48-hour ...
Newsweek

Coffee Lover Gets New Machine—Not Ready For ‘Annoying’ Problem

For one coffee enthusiast, upgrading to a premium brewer led to a surprisingly heated debate about what happens after the coffee is made. On Reddit, user doofus50O0 explained that they had “inherited” ...
Chicago Sun-Times

'The ghost in the machine is just us' — AI pinch hits. But there's a problem...

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Phys.org

Machine learning helps solve a central problem of quantum chemistry

Within the STRUCTURES Cluster of Excellence, two research teams at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) have refined a computing process, long held to be unreliable, such that ...
Psychology Today

Artificial Intelligence and the Passivity Problem

Something is changing in how we think. Artificial intelligence (AI) has lowered the friction of cognition in ways that feel almost natural, if not inevitable. Questions that once demanded "brain power ...
Harvard Business Review

How Gen Z Uses Gen AI—and Why It Worries Them

As go the young, so goes society. Young adults were early adopters of cell phones, social media, and the internet. Now all of these technologies are universal. So how are members of Gen Z using ...
Wall Street Journal

All That Cheap Chinese Stuff Is Now Europe’s Problem

LONDON—President Trump’s crackdown on Chinese imports in the U.S. has redirected a tsunami of cheap stuff into Europe. Some of it is pooled in Xue Er’s backyard. A stay-at-home mom in her 40s who ...
Ars Technica

Testing shows why the Steam Machine’s 8GB of graphics RAM could be a problem

But there’s one spec that has caused some concern among Ars staffers and others with their eyes on the Steam Machine: The GPU comes with just 8GB of dedicated graphics RAM, an amount that is steadily ...
The Hollywood Reporter

The ‘Mad Men’ 4K Stream on HBO Max Had So Many Problems (Not All of Which Involved a Barf Machine)

But the best one definitely did. By Tony Maglio If you wanted to see Mad Men truly like never before, you had your chance on HBO Max. The 4K stream of the classic Lionsgate Television series for AMC ...
The Conversation

Machines whisper before they scream: we built an AI model that predicts expensive problems

Edward Khomotso Nkadimeng receives funding from the National Research Foundation. In most industries, maintenance is a waiting game. Things are fixed when they break. But in the 21st century, an age ...
Engadget

For the Steam Machine to change PC gaming, Valve must solve Linux's anti-cheat problem

Following months of rumors, Valve finally announced the new Steam Machine earlier this week. And while I might question the company's decision to ship a system with only 8GB of VRAM in 2026, I believe ...