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As Machines Get Smarter, Evidence They Learn Like Us
...for how we learn. “It seemed to me if you want to understand something, you need to be able to build one,” he said. Following the reductionist approach of physics,...
Networks Reveal the Connections of Disease
...Thurner thought there were other, deeper questions that the data could answer as well. In a recent paper in the New Journal of Physics, Thurner and his colleagues Peter Klimek...
Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
...some of the stuff I would later be teaching in my book. But still, this was just a hobby; at the time my academic interest was physics. I did physics...
The Information Theory of Life
...transmissions over a wire. Since then, the field has found wide application, and few researchers have done more in that regard than Adami, who is a professor of physics and...
A Ticking Evolutionary Clock
After a string of Insights puzzles related to physics, on the relationship between time and entropy, half-lives, overhang and quantum weirdness, we turn this month to the mysteries of biological...
Grand Unification Dream Kept at Bay
...particles might exist besides the known ones. This in turn could potentially solve other deep mysteries of physics, such as the universe’s matter-antimatter imbalance and the unexplained masses of neutrinos....
The Fuzzball Fix for a Black Hole Paradox
...identified three central concepts in physics that could not all simultaneously be true around the event horizon of a black hole. One must be abandoned to resolve this so-called firewall...
Dark Energy May Be Weakening, Major Astrophysics Study Finds
...slightly weakening with time. It’s a finding that has the potential to shake the foundations of physics. “If true, it would be the first real clue we have gotten about...
Have Physicists Discovered a New Boson?
In 2012, the world’s biggest supercollider discovered the Higgs boson, completing the Standard Model of particle physics. Now a team of little-known Hungarian physicists claim to have found a new,...