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Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem.

By Natalie Wolchover
January 30, 2020
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By teaching machines to understand our true desires, one scientist hopes to avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of having them do what we command.

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An Idea From Physics Helps AI See in Higher Dimensions

By John Pavlus
January 9, 2020
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The laws of physics stay the same no matter one’s perspective. Now this idea is allowing computers to detect features in curved and higher-dimensional space.

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Playing Hide-and-Seek, Machines Invent New Tools

By Stephen Ornes
November 18, 2019
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After millions of games, machine learning algorithms found creative solutions and unexpected new strategies that could transfer to the real world.

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Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence

By Matthew Hutson
November 6, 2019
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By ignoring their goals, evolutionary algorithms have solved longstanding challenges in artificial intelligence.

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A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced

By Jordana Cepelewicz
October 22, 2019
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Researchers have discovered a surprising mathematical relationship in the brain’s representations of sensory information, with possible applications to AI research.

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Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?

By John Pavlus
October 17, 2019
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A tool known as BERT can now beat humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests. But it’s also revealed how far AI has to go.

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Artificial Intelligence Takes On Earthquake Prediction

By Ashley Smart
September 19, 2019
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After successfully predicting laboratory earthquakes, a team of geophysicists has applied a machine learning algorithm to quakes in the Pacific Northwest.

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Computers and Humans ‘See’ Differently. Does It Matter?

By Kevin Hartnett
September 17, 2019
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In some ways, machine vision is superior to human vision. In other ways, it may never catch up.

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The Anthropologist of Artificial Intelligence

By John Pavlus
August 26, 2019
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Iyad Rahwan’s radical idea: The best way to understand algorithms is to observe their behavior in the wild.


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