Every three months, participants in the Metaculus forecasting cup try to predict the future for a prize pot of about $5,000. Metaculus, a forecasting platform, poses questions of geopolitical ...

The current league table shows that a crowd of LLMs come close to matching the average human crowd but is still 30 percent below the level of teams of superforecasters: the gold standard for ...

Multimodal interfaces that combine voice, vision, text, gesture and environmental context are the next step in making ...

Human skin cells may one day be used to create functional human ... “While this is still very early laboratory work, in the ...

In the age of AI, leadership isn’t about being the smartest in the room; it’s about harnessing the human and digital ...

The seas have long sustained human life, but a new UC Santa Barbara study shows that rising climate and human pressures are pushing the oceans toward a dangerous threshold. Vast and powerful, the ...

The Avid Reader welcomes author Scott Solomon for a presentation, discussion and signing of his new book, “Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb.

Small business owners are all saying the same thing: "My website traffic is tanking, and the stuff that used to work just doesn't anymore." And they're right. A 2024 study by SparkToro CEO Rand ...

Alien: Earth suggests a future where consciousness isn't confined to the body you're born in, but is this a realistic ...