Here’s one definition of science: it’s essentially an iterative process of building models with ever-greater explanatory power. A model is just an approximation or simplification of how we think the ...

In a pitch to investors last spring, Anthropic said it intended to build AI to power virtual assistants that could perform research, answer emails, and handle other back-office jobs on their own. The ...

This post is Part 1 of a series. Creative Culture as an Evolutionary Process When I was a graduate student studying "artificial life," I developed what she thought was the first computational model of ...