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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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His Artificial Intelligence Sees Inside Living Cells

By John Pavlus
July 24, 2019
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The computer vision scientist Greg Johnson is building systems that can recognize organelles on sight and show the dynamics of living cells more clearly than microscopy can.

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Curious About Consciousness? Ask the Self-Aware Machines

By John Pavlus
July 11, 2019
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Consciousness is a famously hard problem, so Hod Lipson is starting from the basics: with self-aware robots that can help us understand how we think.

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Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures

By Jordana Cepelewicz
July 1, 2019
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To researchers’ surprise, deep learning vision algorithms often fail at classifying images because they mostly take cues from textures, not shapes.

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science

By Dan Falk
March 11, 2019
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The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more. Is there anything that scientists do that can’t be automated?

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Neuroscience Readies for a Showdown Over Consciousness Ideas

By Philip Ball
March 6, 2019
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To make headway on the mystery of consciousness, some researchers are trying a rigorous new way to test competing theories.

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Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks

By Kevin Hartnett
January 31, 2019
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Neural networks can be as unpredictable as they are powerful. Now mathematicians are beginning to reveal how a neural network’s form will influence its function.

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A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think

By John Pavlus
January 10, 2019
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Neural networks are famously incomprehensible, so Been Kim is developing a “translator for humans.”

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Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room

By Kevin Hartnett
September 20, 2018
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A visual prank exposes an Achilles’ heel of computer vision systems: Unlike humans, they can’t do a double take.


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