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At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold

By Kevin Hartnett
September 21, 2020
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Computer scientists are trying to build an AI system that can win a gold medal at the world’s premier math competition.

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How Close Are Computers to Automating Mathematical Reasoning?

By Stephen Ornes
August 27, 2020
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AI tools are shaping next-generation theorem provers, and with them the relationship between math and machine.

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Why Is Glass Rigid? Signs of Its Secret Structure Emerge.

By John Pavlus
July 7, 2020
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At the molecular level, glass looks like a liquid. But an artificial neural network has picked up on hidden structure in its molecules that may explain why glass is rigid like a solid.

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A Digital Locksmith Has Decoded Biology’s Molecular Keys

By John Pavlus
June 3, 2020
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Neural networks have been taught to quickly read the surfaces of proteins — molecules critical to many biological processes.

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Symbolic Mathematics Finally Yields to Neural Networks

By Stephen Ornes
May 20, 2020
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After translating some of math’s complicated equations, researchers have created an AI system that they hope will answer even bigger questions.

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Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers

By John Pavlus
April 30, 2020
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The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. Now a new approach, borrowing from two disparate lines of thinking, has made important progress.

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Machine Learning Takes On Antibiotic Resistance

By Katherine Harmon Courage
March 9, 2020
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To combat resistant bacteria and refill the trickling antibiotic pipeline, scientists are getting help from deep learning networks.

An AI genie turning a home into a jungle.
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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.

Illustration of a pair of lungs being scanned in three dimensions, with a status bar that reads “Scanning lung tissue: 60%.”
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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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