Informatics sits at the intersection of technology, people, and society. The dean of the UW Information School (iSchool), Anind K. Dey, describes it as an “updated liberal arts degree,” one built for ...

Have AI agents like Moltbot fundamentally changed whether we need a computer for work? What does this mean for business?

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Arriving on the heels of OpenClaw, Computer is described as "a general-purpose digital worker" that can work on tasks for months in the background.

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The idea that inflammation can be regulated by the nervous system is leading to an explosion in what is being dubbed ‘bioelectric medicine’. But plenty of murky claims are being made by unverified ...

Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think about text-generating AI optimization ...

Today, we know a lot about distance work and how to make it work. Thirty years of federally funded research brought ...

Have you ever had an idea for something that looked cool, but wouldn't work well in practice? When it comes to designing ...

Data-analysis and modelling positions are already becoming obsolete, but hands-on experimentalists can breathe easy for now.

Once, in a pinch at a conference where she needed to set up a printer, she asked ChatGPT to translate incomprehensible instructions into a step-by-step guide “for someone who only uses a computer for ...