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What is an AI agent? A computer scientist explains the next wave of artificial intelligence tools

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A computer scientist explains what that means and how ChatGPT and your Roomba fit into the picture. The latest buzz phrase coming from technology companies is AI agents.

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Why Computer Scientists Consult Oracles

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Hypothetical devices that can quickly and accurately answer questions have become a powerful tool in computational complexity theory. Pose a question

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Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End

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The vast investments in scaling, unaccompanied by any comparable efforts to understand what was going on, always seemed to me to be misplaced," Stuart Russel, a computer scientist at UC Berkeley who helped organize the report, told NewScientist. "I

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How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

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During my first semester as a computer science graduate student at Princeton, I took COS 402: Artificial Intelligence. Toward the end of the …

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US Supreme Court Rejects Computer Scientist's Lawsuit Over AI-Generated Inventions

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Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to the U.S. WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The U.S. Patent and …

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A computer scientist explains how quantum advantage could change the world

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Several companies have made quantum computers, but these early models have yet to demonstrate quantum advantage: the ability to outstrip ordinary supercomputers. Quantum advantage is the milestone the field of quantum computing is fervently working toward, where a quantum computer can solve problems …

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Queue in Python: An In-Depth Guide

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Computer scientists call this orderliness a queue, which follows the First In, First Out (FIFO) policy. Introduction Imagine you are standing in front of a supermarket waiting for your turn to buy concert tickets of your favourite artist. All go to the line formation and move from the line at the front of it.

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