Recessions are not predictable with precision. But they are priceable, and at 40% to 50% probability, the risk deserves ...

A simple random sample is a subset of a statistical population where each member of the population is equally likely to be ...

Many drivers will know the feeling: you pull ahead of the slower car you've been stuck behind and cruise the open road ahead at your own, faster speed. By the time you reach the next stop light, ...

A week ago, I wrote about entering an NCAA tournament pool with a more disciplined process than I usually use. Instead of […] ...

Anthropic's latest Claude model assigned itself a 15% – 20% probability of being conscious during internal testing. Claude is the company's large language model that generates text in response to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Researchers at Stanford and Caltech have found some critical reasoning failures in advanced AI models. LLMs are great at recognizing patterns, but they have trouble with basic logic, social reasoning, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT show reasoning errors across many domains. Identifying vulnerabilities is good for public safety, industry, ...

In a new paper that’s making waves, scientists from Stanford, Cal Tech, and Carleton College have combined existing research with new ideas to look at the reasoning failures of large language models ...

Tesla has officially removed Basic Autopilot as a standard feature for new Model 3 and Model Y orders in North America, effective immediately. The move forces buyers to subscribe to the $99/month Full ...

TL;DR: Tesla has placed its lane-centering Autosteer feature behind a $99/month Full Self-Driving (FSD) subscription, ending free Basic Autopilot after seven years. This move aims to boost FSD ...

If a new pathogen causes a large epidemic, then it might “burn out” before causing a second epidemic. The burnout probability can be estimated from large numbers of computationally intensive ...