Natural language processing

A wave of research improves reinforcement learning algorithms by pre-training them as if they were human.

Language processing programs are notoriously hard to interpret, but smaller versions can provide important insights into how they work.

A simple algorithm that revolutionizes how neural networks approach language is now taking on image classification as well. It may not stop there.

It’s simple enough for AI to seem to comprehend data, but devising a true test of a machine’s knowledge has proved difficult.

Tiny amounts of artificial noise can fool neural networks, but not humans. Some researchers are looking to neuroscience for a fix.

AI tools are shaping next-generation theorem provers, and with them the relationship between math and machine.

The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. Now a new approach, borrowing from two disparate lines of thinking, has made important progress.

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.