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AI Reveals New Possibilities in Matrix Multiplication

By Ben Brubaker
November 23, 2022
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Inspired by the results of a game-playing neural network, mathematicians have been making unexpected advances on an age-old math problem.

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New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI

By Allison Whitten
November 10, 2022
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An energy-efficient chip called NeuRRAM fixes an old design flaw to run large-scale AI algorithms on smaller devices, reaching the same accuracy as wasteful digital computers.

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Machine Learning Highlights a Hidden Order in Scents

By Allison Parshall
October 10, 2022
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Efforts to build a better digital “nose” suggest that our perception of scents reflects both the structure of aromatic molecules and the metabolic processes that make them.

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Chaos Researchers Can Now Predict Perilous Points of No Return

By Ben Brubaker
September 15, 2022
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A custom-built machine learning algorithm can predict when a complex system is about to switch to a wildly different mode of behavior.

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How Transformers Seem to Mimic Parts of the Brain

By Stephen Ornes
September 12, 2022
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Neural networks originally designed for language processing turn out to be great models of how our brains understand places.

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The AI Researcher Giving Her Field Its Bitter Medicine

By Max G. Levy
August 30, 2022
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Anima Anandkumar wants computer scientists to move beyond the matrix, among other challenges.

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Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works

By Anil Ananthaswamy
August 11, 2022
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Self-supervised learning allows a neural network to figure out for itself what matters. The process might be what makes our own brains so successful.

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The Computer Scientist Challenging AI to Learn Better

By Allison Whitten
August 2, 2022
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Christopher Kanan is building algorithms that can continuously learn over time — the way we do.

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The Joy of Why

Can Computers Be Mathematicians?

By Steven Strogatz
June 29, 2022
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Artificial intelligence has bested humans at problem-solving challenges like chess and Go. Is mathematics research next? Steven Strogatz speaks with mathematician Kevin Buzzard to learn about the effort to translate math into language that computers understand.


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