One would imagine that an AI capable of solving the hardest Olympiad problems would naturally produce novel scientific ...

Overly simplistic solutions to highly complex problems.

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You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

Researchers developed a machine-learning-guided technique to solve complex, long-horizon planning problems more efficiently than some traditional approaches, while arriving at an optimal solution that ...

While having coffee with an old friend, we talked about our observations with companies lately. He talked about complacency. About people taking short cuts. This was a typical conversation I’ve had ...

Federal public health officials did many good things in response to Covid-19, like investing in Operation Warp Speed, but they misdiagnosed the nature of the pandemic ...

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Psychology theories suggest that humans tend to primarily invest significant mental resources on problems that will reward them for their efforts. More specifically, they propose that before they ...

A screenshot from the downloadable game, Genetics Lab, designed to test complex problem solving See, questions on IQ tests have answers: donkey and horse are to mule as lion and tiger are to liger.