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The AI Pioneer With Provocative Plans for Humanity

December 4, 2024

While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of artificial intelligence to improve lives.

Debate May Help AI Models Converge on Truth

November 8, 2024

How do we know if a large language model is lying? Letting AI systems argue with each other may help expose the truth.

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The Computer Scientist Who Builds Big Pictures From Small Details

October 7, 2024

To better understand machine learning algorithms, Lenka Zdeborová treats them like physical materials.

How ‘Embeddings’ Encode What Words Mean — Sort Of

September 18, 2024

Machines work with words by embedding their relationships with other words in a string of numbers.

Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable

September 11, 2024

By tapping into a decades-old mathematical principle, researchers are hoping that Kolmogorov-Arnold networks will facilitate scientific discovery.

Are Robots About to Level Up?

August 14, 2024

Today’s AI largely lives in computers, but acting and reacting in the real world — that’s the realm of robots. In this week’s episode, co-host Steven Strogatz talks with pioneering roboticist Daniela Rus about creativity, collaboration, and the unusual forms robots of the future might take.

Will AI Ever Have Common Sense?

July 18, 2024

Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has acquired what some believe is an impressive sense of humanity. How is this possible? Listen to this week’s “The Joy of Why” with co-host Steven Strogatz.

What Is Machine Learning?

July 8, 2024

Neural networks and other forms of machine learning ultimately learn by trial and error, one improvement at a time.

How AI Revolutionized Protein Science, but Didn’t End It

June 26, 2024

Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in science to date, accelerating molecular research and kindling deep questions about why we do science.

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