University of Ferrerra researchers reported on the evolution of European skin, eye and hair pigmentation over the last 45,000 ...

"We're arguing that intelligent life may not require a series of lucky breaks to exist," said lead author Dan Mills of the ...

Scientists challenge the idea that intelligent life is rare. They argue that evolution follows planetary changes, not random ...

LLMs are widely used in crowd work. We also find that responses written with the help of LLMs are high-quality but more ...

For decades, scientists have debated whether humanity’s existence is a rare cosmic accident or the natural outcome of ...

In 2000, Yoshua Bengio and co-authors published a paper detailing a neural probabilistic ... of language models. Here’s a quick look at the entire GPT family and its evolution since 2018.

A high-performance key-value store in Go with LSM tree, compaction algorithms, rate limiting, and support for probabilistic data structures like Bloom Filter and SimHash. It also features range scan ...

Researchers present an alternative to the long-held “hard steps” theory to explain the evolution of complex life, suggesting ...

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare.

A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...