Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

ChatGPT and other AI tools are upending our digital lives, but our AI interactions are about to get physical. Humanoid robots trained with a particular type of AI to sense and react to their world ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has achieved remarkable successes in recent years. It can defeat human champions in games like Go, predict protein structures with high accuracy, and perform complex tasks ...

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human. In 1943, while the world’s ...

In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans and animals do, from experience. Decades on, ...

DeepSeek-R1's release last Monday has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. Matching OpenAI’s o1 at just 3%-5% ...

Adversarial attacks against the technique that powers game-playing AIs and could control self-driving cars shows it may be less robust than we thought. The soccer bot lines up to take a shot at the ...

Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically with ambitious missions to the moon, Mars and beyond. But these dreams hinge ...