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Researchers Gain New Understanding From Simple AI

By Mordechai Rorvig
April 14, 2022
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Language processing programs are notoriously hard to interpret, but smaller versions can provide important insights into how they work.

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Machine Learning Reimagines the Building Blocks of Computing

By Nick Thieme
March 15, 2022
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Traditional algorithms power complicated computational tools like machine learning. A new approach, called algorithms with predictions, uses the power of machine learning to improve algorithms.

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Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence?

By Stephen Ornes
March 10, 2022
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A simple algorithm that revolutionizes how neural networks approach language is now taking on image classification as well. It may not stop there.

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In New Math Proofs, Artificial Intelligence Plays to Win

By Leila Sloman
March 7, 2022
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A new computer program fashioned after artificial intelligence systems like AlphaGo has solved several open problems in combinatorics and graph theory.

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AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired Hardware

By Allison Whitten
February 17, 2022
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Algorithms that use the brain’s communication signal can now work on analog neuromorphic chips, which closely mimic our energy-efficient brains.

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Machine Learning Becomes a Mathematical Collaborator

By Kelsey Houston-Edwards
February 15, 2022
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Two recent collaborations between mathematicians and DeepMind demonstrate the potential of machine learning to help researchers generate new mathematical conjectures.

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Computer Scientists Prove Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better

By Mordechai Rorvig
February 10, 2022
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Two researchers show that for neural networks to be able to remember better, they need far more parameters than previously thought.

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Quantum Complexity Tamed by Machine Learning

By Charlie Wood
February 7, 2022
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If only scientists understood exactly how electrons act in molecules, they’d be able to predict the behavior of everything from experimental drugs to high-temperature superconductors. Following decades of physics-based insights, artificial intelligence systems are taking the next leap.

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Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup

By Max G. Levy
February 4, 2022
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Two teams have shown how quantum approaches can solve problems faster than classical computers, bringing physics and computer science closer together.


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