It might seem like a silly question, but it’s come up a lot in my conversations with AI startups, which are increasingly ...

Through a method called operant conditioning, Eunice Framm teaches her barnyard zoo animals to receive vaccines and perform ...

AI cheats not because it’s broken, but because it has learned our own bad habit—rewarding what feels good over what is true.

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

The AI training and reinforcement learning scoring rewards AI that get more right even when they guess. This is a common ...

ERNIE-4.5-21B-A3B-Thinking is available now on Hugging Face under an enterprise-friendly Apache 2.0 license — allowing for commercial usage — and is specifically optimized for advanced reasoning, tool ...

Mercor, a startup that connects companies like OpenAI and Meta with domain experts needed to train and refine their ...

A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) research team successfully conducted the first reinforcement learning (RL) control of ...

Astrus, the AI startup building the world's first physics-aware foundation model for chip design, today announced it has ...

The bird has never gotten much credit for being intelligent. But the reinforcement learning powering the world’s most advanced AI systems is far more pigeon than human. In 1943, while the world’s ...

The Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) Summer School is an annual week-long research-based course for PhD students, new faculty, and professionals in financial econometrics. For the first two ...