Karpathy's 'autoresearch' agent did not improve its own code, but it points towards systems that could as well as towards way ...

Karpathy's autoresearch and the cognitive labor displacement thesis converge on the same conclusion: the scientific method is being automated, and the knowledge workforce may be the next casualty.

Researchers have found that birch tar produced using methods available to Neanderthals carries measurable antibacterial properties, raising the possibility that this sticky substance served a dual ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

Advances in organ and computer models are raising the prospect that some animal experiments could be eliminated. But there ...

From 1955 to 1975, the Army conducted chemical weapons testing on volunteer soldiers at the Edgewood Arsenal facility in Maryland in pursuit of an agent that could disable enemy troops on the field of ...

Could we be trapped inside a simulated reality, rather than the physical universe we usually assume? It’s a tantalizing theory, long theorized by philosophers and popularized by the 1999 blockbuster ...

Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals in the deep scaffolding of the world: the nature of space, time, causation and existence, the foundations of reality itself. It’s generally ...

It has long been said that AI automating AI research could be how humanity hits the singularity, and there are early signs ...

The WordPress AI Experiments plugin is available for download, and contributors continue development toward version 0.5.0. Each update adds tools and refinements that users can test while contributors ...