The "prisoner's dilemma" is one of the most famous ideas in game theory. For decades, this game has been used to explain why selfishness often beats cooperation. In the prisoner's dilemma, two players ...

A new study uses neural networks to prove that memory and individual recognition allow cooperation to defeat selfishness in the prisoner's dilemma.

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The brain is often described as a dense forest of connections, and for years scientists have searched for ways to trim that ...

Researchers use statistical physics and "toy models" to explain how neural networks avoid overfitting and stabilize learning in high-dimensional spaces.

Over the past few decades, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that ...

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Artificial intelligence systems based on neural networks—such as ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek or Gemini—are extraordinarily powerful, yet their internal workings remain largely a "black box." To better ...

One concern following NVIDIA's introduction of its ultra-efficient Neural Texture Compression (NTC) was that it would remain proprietary to only NVIDIA's GPUs. Intel has since introduced its own ...