A new study finds that large language models (LLMs), used with straightforward prompting, perform poorly on routine ...

Fields medalist Terence Tao is part of Team ALPHA, which aims to develop artificial intelligence tools to transform how ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s ...

The technique, called Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards with Self-Distillation (RLSD), combines the reliable ...

If you are a new parent, you must be currently wading through a relentless toy deluge—a digital and physical overflow of information in which revolutionary playthings make their debut in countless ...

Artificial intelligence has performed strongly on the subjects of Chinese literature and English language, but it scored poorly in mathematics, according to a study that used different chatbot tools ...

Most of what AI chatbots know about the world comes from devouring massive amounts of text from the internet—with all its facts, falsehoods, knowledge and nonsense. Given that input, is it possible ...

WORKING OUT how to most efficiently pack a crate full of oranges may seem like a juvenile pursuit for professional mathematicians. And yet the sphere-packing problem, as this pastime is properly known ...

Each protein is identified as a point in this scatter plot of data embedded in the language model’s latent space. The red, green and yellow points indicate various subtypes of proteins found in nature ...

I've been observing psychological and cultural presentations that would have been incomprehensible a decade ago. People report feeling more understood, not infrequently, by LLMs than by their spouse ...

Both explanations have their place in math instruction, but according to a large-scale 2025 study of upper elementary math instruction, the use of precise mathematical terminology may matter more than ...