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A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think
Neural networks are famously incomprehensible — a computer can come up with a good answer, but not be able to explain what led to the conclusion. Been Kim is developing...
Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious
Computer scientists are finding ways to code curiosity into intelligent machines. You probably can’t remember what it feels like to play Super Mario Bros. for the very first time, but...
How to Build a Robot That Wants to Change the World
The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful. Isaac Asimov’s...
A Life Inspired by an Unexpected Genius
For the first 27 years of his life, the mathematician Ken Ono was a screw-up, a disappointment and a failure. At least, that’s how he saw himself. The youngest son...
Searching for the Algorithms Underlying Life
To the computer scientist Leslie Valiant, “machine learning” is redundant. In his opinion, a toddler fumbling with a rubber ball and a deep-learning network classifying cat photos are both learning;...