Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

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Big Four consulting firm Deloitte just repaid $291,000 to the Australian government after admitting it used ChatGPT to produce a compliance review riddled with errors. The report contained nonexistent ...

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The rushed and uneven rollout of A.I. has created a fog in which it is tempting to conclude that there is nothing to see here ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t ...

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s AI start-up Thinking Machines has launched its first product, Tinker, an API for fine-tuning language models. Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines has launched its much ...

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Scientists studying dementia have discovered that an amino acid, previously believed to boost cognition and memory, can actually trigger a gene that causes Alzheimer's to develop. It comes as a ...