For decades now, many physicists have pursued the hope that equations involving an especially tiny “string” could provide the theory that solves nature’s ultimate subatomic mysteries.

In the roughly two years since the public release of ChatGPT, artificial intelligence has advanced far more rapidly than humanity has learned to use its good features and to suppress its bad ones.

Theory of mind is typically defined as the ability to understand the thoughts, beliefs, desires, and emotions of other people. This understanding allows individuals to predict how others will feel ...