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AI Needs Enormous Computing Power. Could Light-Based Chips Help?

May 20, 2024

Optical neural networks, which use photons instead of electrons, have advantages over traditional systems. They also face major obstacles.

Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count

May 16, 2024

By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data.

Game Theory Can Make AI More Correct and Efficient

May 9, 2024

Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them more consistent.

Scientists Find a Fast Way to Describe Quantum Systems

May 1, 2024

After years of false starts, a team of computer scientists has found a way to efficiently deduce the Hamiltonian of a physical system at any constant temperature.

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Does AI Know What an Apple Is? She Aims to Find Out.

April 25, 2024

The computer scientist Ellie Pavlick is translating philosophical concepts such as “meaning” into concrete, testable ideas.

Cryptography Tricks Make a Hard Problem a Little Easier

April 18, 2024

Researchers have shown how to find the simplest description of a data set faster than by simply checking every possibility.

How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?

April 12, 2024

By apparently overtraining them, researchers have seen neural networks discover novel solutions to problems.

Avi Wigderson, Complexity Theory Pioneer, Wins Turing Award

April 10, 2024

The prolific researcher found deep connections between randomness and computation and spent a career influencing cryptographers, complexity researchers and more.

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The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds

March 27, 2024

Russell Impagliazzo studies hard problems, the limits of cryptography, the nature of randomness and more.

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