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Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?
AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human. In this episode, Ellie Pavlick explains why understanding how LLMs can process language could unlock deeper insights into both AI and the human mind.
Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI
An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist.
Where Do Scientists Think This Is All Going?
We asked some of the world’s foremost experts an impossible question. Amazingly, they answered.
What Happens When AI Starts To Ask the Questions?
Technology has forever served as science’s toolbox. But now that AI is being used to develop questions and methods as well, some scientists wonder what their role is going to become.
Why Language Models Are So Hard To Understand
AI researchers are using techniques inspired by neuroscience to study how language models work — and to reveal how perplexing they can be.
How Can AI ID a Cat? An Illustrated Guide.
Neural networks power today’s AI boom. To understand them, all we need is a map, a cat and a few thousand dimensions.
When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History
Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.
What the Most Essential Terms in AI Really Mean
A simple primer to the 19 most important concepts in artificial intelligence.
Improving Deep Learning With a Little Help From Physics
Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding results.