Artificial intelligence

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.

Martin Schrimpf is crafting bespoke AI models that can induce control over high-level brain activity.

Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may soon power AI.

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.

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.