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Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us.

April 9, 2025

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals

April 7, 2025

Complex neural pathways likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times.

Why Do Researchers Care About Small Language Models?

March 10, 2025

Larger models can pull off greater feats, but the accessibility and efficiency of smaller models make them attractive tools.

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The Physicist Working to Build Science-Literate AI

February 28, 2025

By training machine learning models with enough examples of basic science, Miles Cranmer hopes to push the pace of scientific discovery forward.

The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA

February 5, 2025

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating biological design.

Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations

January 31, 2025

Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities.

Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.

January 13, 2025

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn.

The Year in Computer Science

December 19, 2024

Researchers got a better look at the thoughts of chatbots, amateurs learned exactly how complicated simple systems can be, and quantum computers passed an essential milestone.

The Year in Biology

December 18, 2024

Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA.

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