See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred One of the boldest, most breathless claims being made about artificial intelligence tools is that they have “emergent properties” — ...

Researchers at Seoul National University and Kyung Hee University report a framework to control collective motions, such as ring, clumps, mill, flock, by training a physics-informed AI to learn the ...

Complex systems science examines how interactions among numerous components give rise to collective patterns, behaviours and functions that cannot be predicted by studying elements in isolation.

The technology underlying ChatGPT may gain a capability to cause mayhem. The wildly popular program has been cited as offering textual responses that are "disturbing," but on the horizon is an ability ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Two of the five emergent behaviors in the original swarmalator study. a Static sync (S≈0). b Static phase wave (S≈1). The color bar represents each agent’s phase between 0 and 2π; the same color ...

Great discoveries lie at the edge of chaos, and nature provides perhaps the best inspiration for finding order in anarchy. Fish school, birds flock, fireflies sync and ants colonize. This type of ...

A group of researchers at Stanford University and Google have created a miniature RPG-style virtual world similar to The Sims, where 25 characters, controlled by ChatGPT and custom code, live out ...