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One of the most important AI scientists in Big Tech wants to scrap the current approach to building human-level AI. What we ...

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Engineers at the University of California, Davis, have invented a device that can generate mechanical power at night by ...

After years of work, cognition and neuroscience doctoral student Hailey Welch is—for the first time—the lead author of a ...

After years of work, cognition and neuroscience doctoral student Hailey Welch has reached two milestones at once.In September ...

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