Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI

Modern thinking machines owe their existence to the physics of emergence.

The brain’s astounding complexity and cellular diversity could show how to make AI better.

A simple primer to the 19 most important concepts in artificial intelligence.

Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.

Neural networks power today’s AI boom. To understand them, all we need is a map, a cat and a few thousand dimensions.

AI researchers are using techniques inspired by neuroscience to study how language models work — and to reveal how perplexing they can be.

Mathematicians have started to prepare for a profound shift in what it means to do math.

Technology has forever served as science’s toolbox. Now it’s becoming an adviser as well.

We asked some of the world’s foremost experts an impossible question. Amazingly, they answered.