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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.

How Do Machines ‘Grok’ Data?

April 12, 2024

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

How Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Helps Neural Networks Compute

March 21, 2024

Large language models do better at solving problems when they show their work. Researchers are beginning to understand why.

Elliptic Curve ‘Murmurations’ Found With AI Take Flight

March 5, 2024

Mathematicians are working to fully explain unusual behaviors uncovered using artificial intelligence.

How Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better

February 28, 2024

Erasing key information during training results in machine learning models that can learn new languages faster and more easily.

How Quickly Do Large Language Models Learn Unexpected Skills?

February 13, 2024

A new study suggests that so-called emergent abilities actually develop gradually and predictably, depending on how you measure them.

What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics?

February 1, 2024

Terence Tao, who has been called the “Mozart of Mathematics,” wrote an essay in 2007 about the common ingredients in “good” mathematical research. In this episode, the Fields Medalist joins Steven Strogatz to revisit the topic.

New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text

January 22, 2024

Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.

The Year in Computer Science

December 20, 2023

Artificial intelligence learned how to generate text and art better than ever before, while computer scientists developed algorithms that solved long-standing problems.

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