People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends ...

AI language models, used to generate human-like text to power chatbots and create content, are also revolutionizing biology ...

A team of AI researchers, biologists and evolutionary specialists at EvolutionaryScale and the Arc Institute, both in the U.S., has designed and built an AI model capable of generating the code to ...

Models, by definition, are approximations: useful, informative, and inevitably incomplete, because they are the only way to simplify a world too complex to grasp all at once. A new study on nitrous ...

Greg Brockman has teased a new AI model codenamed ‘Spud’, hinting at a major leap for OpenAI. The model could bring the ...

Evo is a large language model that is not trained on words but on the genomes of millions of microbes. It can accurately predict the effects of mutations. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Roy Spencer was a Visiting Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. The observed rate of global warming over the past 50 years has been weaker than that ...

Science journalism faces a crisis worldwide. From a precipitous drop in funding to the rise of disruptive technologies such ...