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It was in the wake of Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) having waged war on Christianity with his work, Of Miracles (1748), that British minister Richard Price (1723-1791) was compelled to ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

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The ability to make adaptive decisions in uncertain environments is a fundamental characteristic of biological intelligence. Historically, computational ...