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An Idea From Physics Helps AI See in Higher Dimensions

By John Pavlus
January 9, 2020
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The laws of physics stay the same no matter one’s perspective. Now this idea is allowing computers to detect features in curved and higher-dimensional space.

Art for "Quanta’s Year in Math and Computer Science (2019)"
2019 in Review

The Year in Math and Computer Science

By Bill Andrews
December 23, 2019
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Mathematicians and computer scientists made big progress in number theory, graph theory, machine learning and quantum computing, even as they reexamined our fundamental understanding of mathematics and neural networks.

Q&A

The Architect of Modern Algorithms

By Susan D'Agostino
November 20, 2019
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Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone.

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artificial intelligence

Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools

By Stephen Ornes
November 18, 2019
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After millions of games, machine learning algorithms found creative solutions and unexpected new strategies that could transfer to the real world.

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Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence

By Matthew Hutson
November 6, 2019
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By ignoring their goals, evolutionary algorithms have solved longstanding challenges in artificial intelligence.

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Abstractions blog

Google and IBM Clash Over Milestone Quantum Computing Experiment

By Kevin Hartnett
October 23, 2019
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Today Google announced that it achieved “quantum supremacy.” Its chief quantum computing rival, IBM, said it hasn’t. The disagreement hinges on what the term really means.

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Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?

By John Pavlus
October 17, 2019
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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.

Quantized Columns

Why I Called It ‘Quantum Supremacy’

By John Preskill
October 2, 2019
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Researchers finally seem to have a quantum computer that can outperform a classical computer. But what does that really mean?

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Q&A

To Invent a Quantum Internet

By Natalie Wolchover
September 25, 2019
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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.


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