Lines in the sand

Compare tim flach’s wildlife portraits with almost identical images created by artificial intelligence (AI) and you are aware of two things – they are remarkably lifelike but you can still quite easil

Ancient India gave the world its number system, anticipated Galileo’s heliocentric theory by a millennium and spread its culture from Egypt to Siberia–only to be almost entirely forgotten. It’s past time to restore it to its rightful place in history

Tech leaders and industry insiders are giddy with excitement about the advances under way in artificial intelligence, whether due to the scaling up of existing models and functionalities, new reasonin

Exhibition of the week Ancient India: living traditions ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is an ancient Greek device made up of intricately meshed bronze gears believed to have been used to track the positions of the Moon and Sun, and to predict the dates of eclip

Artificial intelligence used to mean something different. Or at least it did to me, back in the time of blocky, beige home computers and bold prognostications about the end of history—the 1990s. Video