This article (originally published Aug. 13, 2025) has been updated to include new text and illustrations featured in the Jan.

Like humans, artificial intelligence learns by trial and error, but traditionally, it requires humans to set the ball rolling by designing the algorithms and rules that govern the learning process.

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In a year when AI dominated headlines, readers quietly wrote a different story: they trust each other more than algorithms. Everand and Fable, Scribd, Inc.