Computer science

A tool known as BERT can now beat humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests. But it's also revealed how far AI has to go.

Researchers finally seem to have a quantum computer that can outperform a classical computer. But what does that really mean?

Is nature inherently random or is perfect randomness just an illusion based on our ignorance?

Fifty years after the current internet was born, the physicist and computer scientist Stephanie Wehner is planning and designing the next internet — a quantum one.

After successfully predicting laboratory earthquakes, a team of geophysicists has applied a machine learning algorithm to quakes in the Pacific Northwest.

In some ways, machine vision is superior to human vision. In other ways, it may never catch up.

Iyad Rahwan’s radical idea: The best way to understand algorithms is to observe their behavior in the wild.

The “sensitivity” conjecture stumped many top computer scientists, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet.

The computer vision scientist Greg Johnson is building systems that can recognize organelles on sight and show the dynamics of living cells more clearly than microscopy can.