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We apologize to our Roombas when we trip over them—so why do we hesitate to call an LLM conscious when it starts apologizing back? Maybe the real question isn’t if AI is conscious, but rather what ...

Around the turn of the 20th century, sociologist Max Weber theorized that industrialization and capitalism were changing how our social institutions, including workplaces, form and function.

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At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of ...

A horizontal asymptote is a horizontal line that a function approaches as the input variable (usually denoted as x) goes towards infinity or negative infinity. Understanding how to find horizontal ...

In an era when artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming the brush and chisel of the modern artist, we find ourselves at a crossroads of understanding what constitutes beauty. The advent of ...

The introduction of writing and agriculture were watershed events for humanity, and are forever interlinked. People have been telling stories – made up and otherwise – and sharing information about ...

Robert E. Lucas Jr., a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose revolutionary theories transformed the field of macroeconomics and our understanding of economic policy, died May 15. He was 85. A member of ...

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions. One of the ...