Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

The 14-page motion looked like any standard court filing in a civil lawsuit. Filed in April in San Diego Superior Court, attorneys defending a local company were making a routine request for a judge ...

Man using a laptop at a conference. — Image © Tim Sandle Man using a laptop at a conference. — Image © Tim Sandle As the year draws to a close, James Wickett ...

Up in the Cascade Mountains, 90 miles east of Seattle, a group of high-ranking Amazon engineers gather for a private off-site. They hail from the company’s North America Stores division, and they’re ...

If you’ve ever asked ChatGPT a question only to receive an answer that reads well but is completely wrong, then you’ve witnessed a hallucination. Some hallucinations can be downright funny (i.e. the ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that the voices heard by people with schizophrenia might be their own inner speech gone awry. Now, researchers have found brainwave evidence showing exactly how ...

Generative AI chatbots like Microsoft Copilot make stuff up all the time. Here’s how to rein in those lying tendencies and make better use of the tools. Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI chatbot, ...

Immersive Virtual Reality experiences reproducing visual hallucinations effects, miming those induced by the use of psychedelic substances, albeit without the actual use of substances. This is the ...

We all are witness to the incredibly frenetic race to develop AI tools, which publicly kicked off on Nov. 30, 2022, with the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI. While the race was well underway prior to the ...

Hallucinations are unreal sensory experiences, such as hearing or seeing something that is not there. Any of our five senses (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch) can be involved. Most often, when we ...