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An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist.
We asked some of the world’s foremost experts an impossible question. Amazingly, they answered.
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.
AI researchers are using techniques inspired by neuroscience to study how language models work — and to reveal how perplexing they can be.
Neural networks power today’s AI boom. To understand them, all we need is a map, a cat and a few thousand dimensions.
A simple primer to the 19 most important concepts in artificial intelligence.
Modern thinking machines owe their existence to insights from the physics of complex materials.
Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about geologically active moons.
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These three imagined scenarios lead many physicists to doubt that space-time is fundamental.
Quantum gravity could help physicists unite the currently incompatible worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity. In this episode, Monika Schleier-Smith discusses her pioneering experimental approach, using laser-cooled atoms to explore whether gravity could emerge from quantum entanglement.
Illuminating basic science and math research through public service journalism.
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