If the problem you are solving isn’t inherently hard, that’s a huge problem in itself, for a number of reasons. The biggest problem is that you immediately lose your competitive advantage.

The Hard Problems issue. This story was part of our November/December 2023 issue. Explore the issue. Popular. We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

When most people think about math problems, we think back to algebra class, geometry, or for the real showoffs, trigonometry. For true mathematicians, however, things get much more complicated ...

It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new algorithm appears to do so for some critical optimization tasks.

Like the hard problem of consciousness, the problem of psychology can be easily stated; as we move from physics and astronomy into chemistry and geology and into biology and neuroscience, we see ...

THIS is a collection of numerical and mathematical exercises in electrical engineering, starting from the most elementary beginning and ending in the more difficult problems presented by the ...

This blog explains what the hard problem is and why it needs to be split into two very different problems. One problem is the scientific problem, which we call the neurocognitive engineering problem.

The ChatGPT maker reveals details of what’s officially known as OpenAI o1, which shows that AI needs more than scale to advance. The new model, dubbed OpenAI o1, can solve problems that stump ...