Marvin Minsky famously said that the brain is not one computer, but several hundred computers working in tandem. If that's true, ChatGPT's cognitive power just got a boost with the creation of a ...

Mathematica creator Stephen Wolfram has spent nearly 50 years arguing that simple computational rules underlie everything from animal patterns to the laws of physics. In his 2023 TED talk, he makes ...

Last week, I wrote about structuring class time to get students to self-verify their work. This means using tools, experiences, other people, and their own intelligence to gauge the validity of a ...

Many of us have been thinking about the future over the recent years, as we see AI blossom. We're wondering what AI has to do with the future of humanity, and exactly ...

Between the summer of 1665 and the spring of 1667, Isaac Newton developed his theories on calculus, optics, and the laws of motion and gravity. He was quarantining during the Bubonic Plague and found ...

92,518 days ago on 27th January 1756, with just 92.90 per cent of the leap year 1756 left to tick, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born. It was a Tuesday. The moon was a waning crescent, and the sun shone ...

The novel coronavirus has derailed everyday existence for all of us, forcing us to make difficult choices. But a few weeks ago, Stephen Wolfram’s dilemma was unique. What should you do, he wondered, ...

This article originally appeared on TechRepublic. When it came to figuring out which computer scientist should help linguists decipher inscrutable alien texts, it was Stephen Wolfram who got the call.

A few months before the strikingly well-spoken AI system ChatGPT hit the scene, some of its developers approached renowned computer scientist Stephen Wolfram to show off the app. Not bad, Wolfram said ...

Wolfram Alpha is live, and we want your feedback. Following a delay due to technical glitches, the new "computational knowledge engine" went live to the public Friday night, and we're interested in ...

The problem is Wolfram Alpha isn't a search engine and never claimed to be. In fact, the first question on the site's FAQ list is just that, and the answer is -- no. What the company claims it to be ...