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Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett about the movie Stalker (1979). “I hadn't seen anything like it before and I haven't really seen anything like it since. Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film in the USSR...

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The jobs that will be eradicated by our AI overlords The UK government will work with supplier Anthropic to build an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for job seekers, despite its chief executive’s doom-laden views of the job market.…

“Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans”, according to the title of the research study by Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson, and Magnus Enquist of Stockholm University, honored by the 2003…

Opinion: Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter

The term surrealism — or rather, surréalisme — originates from the French words for 'beyond reality.' That's a zone, we may assume, reachable by only daring, and possibly unhinged, artistic minds. But...

Is the inside of a vision model at all like a language model? Researchers argue that as the models grow more powerful, they may be converging toward a singular “Platonic” way to represent the world.