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Chaos Researchers Can Now Predict Perilous Points of No Return

September 15, 2022

A custom-built machine learning algorithm can predict when a complex system is about to switch to a wildly different mode of behavior.

How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain

September 12, 2022

Neural networks originally designed for language processing turn out to be great models of how our brains understand places.

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The AI Researcher Giving Her Field Its Bitter Medicine

August 30, 2022

Anima Anandkumar wants computer scientists to move beyond the matrix, among other challenges.

Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works

August 11, 2022

Self-supervised learning allows a neural network to figure out for itself what matters. The process might be what makes our own brains so successful.

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The Computer Scientist Challenging AI to Learn Better

August 2, 2022

Christopher Kanan is building algorithms that can continuously learn over time — the way we do.

Can Computers Be Mathematicians?

June 29, 2022

Artificial intelligence has bested humans at problem-solving challenges like chess and Go. Is mathematics research next? Steven Strogatz speaks with mathematician Kevin Buzzard to learn about the effort to translate math into language that computers understand.

By Exploring Virtual Worlds, AI Learns in New Ways

June 24, 2022

Intelligent beings learn by interacting with the world. Artificial intelligence researchers have adopted a similar strategy to teach their virtual agents new tricks.

How to Make the Universe Think for Us

May 31, 2022

Physicists are building neural networks out of vibrations, voltages and lasers, arguing that the future of computing lies in exploiting the universe’s complex physical behaviors.

Powerful ‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics From Raw Data

May 10, 2022

Researchers say we’re on the cusp of “GoPro physics,” where a camera can point at an event and an algorithm can identify the underlying physics equation.

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