A renewed debate over the nature of intelligence has erupted among some of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence, after comments made by Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun were ...

A public disagreement between AI researchers Yann LeCun and Demis Hassabis has reopened a long-running debate on whether human intelligence can be described as “general”. In a recent podcast ...

According to Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) on Twitter, Yann LeCun is conflating general intelligence with universal intelligence, emphasizing that both human brains and AI foundation models function ...

A new study introduces a structured way to classify the growing list of objections raised by scientists, philosophers, and technologists about whether artificial intelligence (AI) could ever be ...

Given the importance of recursion in modern linguistics, there ought to be much to commend in Watumull et al.'s (2014) attempt to clarify what recursion is (or ought to be); I have trudged this very ...

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The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

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Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Function Health CEO Jonathan Swerdlin Many people have low-level risk factors, such as early signs of heart disease, smoldering inside their body. But ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...