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Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence?

March 10, 2022

A simple algorithm that revolutionizes how neural networks approach language is now taking on image classification as well. It may not stop there.

Cryptographers Achieve Perfect Secrecy With Imperfect Devices

February 25, 2022

For the first time, experiments demonstrate the possibility of sharing secrets with perfect privacy — even when the devices used to share them cannot be trusted.

AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired Hardware

February 17, 2022

Algorithms that use the brain’s communication signal can now work on analog neuromorphic chips, which closely mimic our energy-efficient brains.

Machine Learning Becomes a Mathematical Collaborator

February 15, 2022

Two recent collaborations between mathematicians and DeepMind demonstrate the potential of machine learning to help researchers generate new mathematical conjectures.

Computer Scientists Prove Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better

February 10, 2022

Two researchers show that for neural networks to be able to remember better, they need far more parameters than previously thought.

Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup

February 4, 2022

Two teams have shown how quantum approaches can solve problems faster than classical computers, bringing physics and computer science closer together.

Researchers Build AI That Builds AI

January 25, 2022

By using hypernetworks, researchers can now preemptively fine-tune artificial neural networks, saving some of the time and expense of training.

Computer Scientists Eliminate Pesky Quantum Computations

January 19, 2022

For years, intermediate measurements made it hard to quantify the complexity of quantum algorithms. New work establishes that those measurements aren’t necessary after all.

Qubits Can Be as Safe as Bits, Researchers Show

January 6, 2022

A new result shows that quantum information can theoretically be protected from errors just as well as classical information can.

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