Researchers at Stanford and Caltech have found some critical reasoning failures in advanced AI models. LLMs are great at recognizing patterns, but they have trouble with basic logic, social reasoning, ...

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Joel David Hamkins is not a peripheral critic of artificial intelligence. He is a senior figure in mathematical logic whose career has unfolded inside some of the most demanding institutions and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Get set theory explained in a clear and complete way, covering everything you need to know from basic definitions to key operations and ideas. This video walks through sets, subsets, unions, ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

The idea that we might be living inside a vast computer simulation, much like in The Matrix, has fascinated philosophers and scientists for years. But a new study from researchers at the University of ...