Abstract: The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) was developed to tackle combinatorial optimization problems, such as the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP), by approximating solutions ...

Abstract: The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) asks for the shortest tour that visits each city once and returns to the start. It is a classic NP-hard problem and a benchmark for optimization, ...

Human beings may have sung before they spoke. Scientists from Charles Darwin onward have speculated that, for our early ancestors, music predated—and possibly formed the basis of—language. The ...

Online fury erupted this week after an LG TV owner claimed that a firmware update installed unremovable generative AI software on their smart TV. The controversy began on Saturday, when a Reddit user ...

A mathematician opens up ChatGPT to check a calculation she could have easily solved in her head. An executive uses AI to draft an email he's written a hundred times before. A professor asks ...

When an Air Canada customer service chatbot assured a passenger that they qualified for a bereavement refund—a policy that didn't exist—nobody suspected anything. The passenger booked their ticket ...

A test of the ideological biases of three leading AI models from China, Europe, and the U.S. returned some surprising results. Recent studies have shown that some of today’s most widely used large ...

There is a long intellectual lineage of psychologists and business theorists who have pointed out that organizations routinely work on the wrong problem. Yet all these thinkers faced the same ...

As the fall semester came to a close, Andrew Heiss, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, ...

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