The inspiration for this column comes not from the epic 1999 film The Matrix, as the title may suggest, but from an episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast that I listened to over the summer. The ...

The OpenAI chairman, now working on AI agents at his new startup Sierra, on why he’s all in on AI.

“One is, all of this stuff is happening because a big computer, very quickly, is multiplying large numbers in these big, huge matrices together, and those are correlated with words that are being put ...