Adding one irrelevant sentence to math problems causes AI systems to make confident mistakes over 300 percent more.

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Zebras and tigers have stripes, cheetahs and leopards have spots, and the ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus) boasts a labyrinthine pattern of black-and-green chains of scales. Now researchers from the ...

Overview: Large Language Models predict text; they do not truly calculate or verify math.High scores on known Datasets do not ...

Stripes are common in our lives. It’s a pretty basic pattern, and easy to take for granted. As an applied mathematician who studies how patterns form in nature, though, I am wowed by the striped ...

Remember the graph paper you used at school, the kind that’s covered with tiny squares? It’s the perfect illustration of what mathematicians call a “periodic tiling of space”, with shapes covering an ...

Math in economics — as well as its smaller cousin finance — is seductive for a number of reasons. One is simply our human brain. Illusory pattern perception is a well-documented occurrence whereby our ...