06/30 — 07/02 Working Group “Augmenting Intelligence Through Collective Learning,” hosted at the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, organized by Henrik Olsson, Mirta Galesic, Rob Goldstone 07/14 — 07/17 ...

As artificial intelligence has become a regular part of our daily lives, companies have run into a serious problem: their ...

<p>Traditional models of how culture spreads were designed to describe early civilizations, typically focused on hunter-gatherers and almost always on pre-industrial societies. Today, a myriad of ...

In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing more deeply into their profession.&nbsp;A recent paper&nbsp;in Nature Human Behavior mapped the dependency relationships ...

SFI External Professor and Science Steering Committee member Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland) has been elected President of the Network Science Society, an organization that supports an ...

Large language models like GPT-4, the one behind ChatGPT, train on vast stores of data to complete one task: Produce a convincing sequence of words in response to a user’s written request. The tools ...

Medieval friar William of Ockham posited a famous idea: always pick the simplest explanation. Often referred to as the parsimony principle, &ldquo;Ockham&rsquo;s razor&rdquo; has shaped scientific ...

Cultural traits &mdash; the information, beliefs, behaviors, customs, and practices that shape the character of a population&nbsp;&mdash; are influenced by conformity, the tendency to align with ...

The emergence of new viruses is often unpredictable, jumping as they might from infecting one species to another. HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, was thought to have emerged in the early 20th century ...

Historians of philosophy are like painters; by giving an interpretation of another philosopher’s problems and concepts, they paint philosophical portraits. SFI Research Fellow Anthony Eagan paints ...

In The Complex World, the newest book from the SFI Press, SFI President David C. Krakauer offers readers a concise and comprehensive overview of complexity science, following its roots from the ...