ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

The bat-and-ball problem is a famous math puzzle that more than half of people—even Harvard graduates—get wrong. It's ...

CNN's Harry Enten dropped bad news on Democrats, breaking down the simple "math problem" that could keep them from gaining control of the Senate. The post CNN Data Guru Dumps Ice Cold Water on ...

The most important takeaway is that intelligence cannot be reduced to a single score or trait. It is a complex combination of different abilities that work together in unique and often imperfect ways.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the ten questions right.

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Katie Arnold-Ratliff wrote a ...

Easy access to AI answer bots is killing learning. That’s one of the conclusions in a new and troubling study about AI use ...

A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...