Machine Learning

Two years ago, a pair of 22-year-old friends who met in high school in Michigan found themselves sitting…

Teens regularly turn to generative-AI chatbots in search of mental-health support. A report on a study said this…

Transcript Michelle Brush: It is an interesting time to be in tech, for many definitions of interesting. I’m…

McCarron RM, Shapiro B, Rawles J, Luo J. Depression. Ann Intern Med. 2021;174(5):ITC65–80. Google Scholar Goodwin GM, Croal…

Summary: A new study reveals African lions produce two types of roars, overturning long-held assumptions and opening the…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers…

Tinajero MG, Malik VS. An update on the epidemiology of type 2 diabetes: A global perspective. Endocrinol Metab…

Summary: A new study demonstrates that an AI assistant can conduct psychiatric assessment interviews with greater diagnostic accuracy…

Memo may not be the world’s fastest barista, but it is impressive—for a robot. I recently watched as…

Researchers from Turku Bioscience Centre at the University of Turku, Finland, have developed a new computational method to…

Renowned computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has made history by becoming the first living researcher to surpass one million…

Cluster analysis The frequency of GDM-diagnosis exhibits two distinct peaks of one around 12 and another of 27 weeks…

Two Gen Zers turned down millions from Elon Musk to build an AI based on the human brain—and it’s outperformed models from OpenAI and Anthropic