A new paper from Apple's artificial intelligence scientists has found that engines based on large language models, such as ...

Hans-Karl Eder is a German mathematician, educator and author who also works as a MINT ambassador to get young people ...

How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really "thinking" or "reasoning" the way we understand those ...

Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago ...

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Some experts note that AI is dysfunctional at math. It tends to produce wrong answers, and can be slow to correct them. The ...

If you’ve ever tried to use ChatGPT as a calculator, you’ve almost certainly noticed its dyscalculia: The chatbot is bad at math. And it’s not unique among AI in this regard. Anthropic’s Claude can’t ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — No, the Kansas City Chiefs don’t have a Travis Kelce problem. Three weeks into the NFL’s season, an increasing number of people — fans, analysts and even former players ...

To learn math, students must build a mental toolbox of facts and procedures needed for different problems. But students who can recall these foundational facts in isolation often struggle to use ...

problem-solving, and conceptual thinking) to the left side of the brain (which regulates motor skills, language, math, and linear thinking), and vice versa. This can lead to an inability to unify ...

If you want to debate whether one investment yielding 4.5% is better than a less risky investment yielding 4.2%, you can usually count on an answer from Christine Benz, who writes a regular column ...