The U.S. government has an official plan for a zombie apocalypse Think The Walking Dead is straight-up fiction? Well, it is—but the government wants to be prepared for a real-life version anyhow. The ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

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The robin-map library is a C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using open-addressing and linear robin hood hashing with backward shift deletion to resolve collisions. tsl::robin_map ...

The latest addition is the new Mind Maps feature. A mind map is an old ... the leading edge of reporting on generative AI and large language models. He's since become an expert on the products ...

As of today, Mind Maps are rolled out to all NotebookLM users. Google also announced Settings (which cannot be tapped on the homepage if you’re on mobile in a layout bug) > Output Language.

The AI firm Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what it does as it comes up with a response, revealing key new insights into how the technology works.

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called ...

Eight years after being paralysed, 30-year-old Noland Arbaugh became the first person to receive a mind-reading chip in his brain from Neuralink in January 2024 and now, his thoughts work as computer ...

Such a gap lies in the intricate mechanics of AI tools, which rely on so-called large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Meta’s LlaMA, or Google’s Gemini to digest vast troves of internet data that ...