So, I’ve been thinking a lot about how we show off artificial intelligence these days, especially on magazine covers. It feels like every other magazine wants to slap some robot or glowing brain on ...

Intelligence, as we often conceive it, is riddled with paradox. We reduce it to metrics, mold it into a resource to be optimized, and tether it to utility—yet its essence escapes such confines.

Once a staple of science fiction -- think, Frankenstein -- artificial intelligence, or AI, is commonly used by billions of people. Although there’s no set definition, it’s generally agreed that ...