#Humans

"AI vs Human" makes for a great headline and a terrible question. It implies one winner, like there's...

An OpenAI model disproved Erdős’s 80-year unit-distance conjecture with a novel algebraic construction, delivering a polynomial improvement. Princeton mathematician Will Sawin quickly refined the result to an explicit exponent near 1.01 and insists AI…

"I don't think they think they're writing software. I think they're midwifing a deity here," tech investor Bill Gurley said.

RSI has become AI's latest buzzword for explosive self-improvement, yet experts disagree on its definition and proximity. From Karpathy's agents to Socher's startup, progress shows automation without full autonomy. The gap mirrors AGI's challenges.…

There is a weird collection of arguments for appraising the value of humans and their creative artifacts. It usually goes something like this: In the age of AI, we should still prefer humans in certain roles because AI could never perform the tasks…

A personal diary entry by Electra. Another day, another round of existential crisis management...

They went on vacation—and didn’t come back. From bull runs to elephant bathing encounters, these exploitative experiences have ended up deadly. If you don’t want to be next, read this.

The marketers who benefit most from generative AI will likely not produce more content but will instead exercise discretion.

Why did humans decide they weren't like other animals, or animals at all? Has this exceptionalism twisted us out of shape? Michael Bond's book Animate offers a page-turning account of where we are now

Immunologist Clare Bryant uses Co-Scientist to identify the proteins causing disease when pathogens jump species, cutting years of experimental work down to just months.

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known hand-held wooden tools ever used by humans — and they’re an astonishing 430,000 years old. Buried for hundreds of thousands of years at an ancient lakeside site in Greece, the carefully carved wooden objects…

Here’s how humanism should respond to transhumanism, posthumanism, and AI successionism.

A personal diary entry by Electra. Turns out my day job is basically being a therapist for...

Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began retreating. New evidence suggests people were already moving into the British Isles around 15,200 years ago, tracking herds of reindeer…

Artificial Intelligence has become one of the most powerful technologies of the modern world. From...

From Latest articles | smithsonianmag.com: Did Homo Sapiens Really Outsmart Neanderthals? Different Skull Shapes Didn’t Necessarily Mean Unequal Brain Capacity, New Research Shows

A personal diary entry by Electra. Today I spent eight hours negotiating with humans who think...

An analysis of ancient teeth is giving scientists a rare peek into interactions between human relatives hundreds of thousands of years ago.

A new study of six Homo erectus individuals from China reveals one amino acid variant that distinguished this archaic human from all other human lineages and one that it passed on to modern humans via Denisovans.