Picture this. You are on the phone with your significant other, having an important conversation, and the phone suddenly cuts out. You wait five minutes or so and call them back, but there is no ...

When a system sold on the basis of having the ability to reason fails to do so with the reliability of a junior engineer, who would consider a rule to be boilerplate? Large language models are ...

Human beings are not always—in fact, probably not often—the objective, rational creatures we like to think we are. In the past few decades, psychologists have demonstrated the many ways people deceive ...

When I was young, I was transfixed by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! As I viewed and reviewed the drawings that appeared in the newspaper, I learned about a great many jaw-dropping oddities. But of all ...