Mathematics has the potential to be a great equalizer. Compared with other scientific and technical fields, it requires few expensive physical resources. Sometimes, a whiteboard and a marker are all ...

Scrolling through Twitter and lurking in artificial intelligence communities over the past few months, I’ve seen a lot of big claims. In the few days since OpenAI unveiled its GPT-4 model, those have ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine you had a friend who gave different answers to the same question, depending on how you asked it. “What’s the capital of Peru?” ...