Present-day LLMs, such as ChatGPT and Claude, can perform complex tasks, such as writing poetry and solving difficult algebra ...

Reporting on Math in the Age of A.I. ... Abstract TBA ...

Most people favor one hand, and that hand tends to be the better one at writing, at throwing, at managing chopsticks. The ...

A new paper in the journal Birds documents what may be a previously undescribed Pine Grosbeak vocalization in a pattern that ...

What would the antebellum American economy have looked like without slavery? Using new micro-data on the U.S. economy in 1860, we document that where free and enslaved workers live and how much they ...

Imagine you poll your friends on how many minutes per pound to roast a turkey. Five respond with 15 minutes; one answers 33 minutes. The most popular model of conformity, the French-Harary-DeGroot ...

In the 1970s, Thomas Nagel famously asked “what is it like to be a bat?” Today, large language models clamor to give an answer. Researchers optimistically argue that AI will allow humans to speak to ...

SFI External Professor Nicholas de Monchaux has been named the new dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design (CED), with a term commencing July 1, 2027. De Monchaux, an acclaimed architect ...

This event is closed to the public. Recent advancements in automation and digitization of chemistry have opened new avenues for exploring chemical complexity. In this talk I will explain how Assembly ...

SFI Science Board Fellow Simon Levin (Princeton University) has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Society announced on May 27, 2026. Levin is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished ...