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AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work.

July 21, 2025

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”

How Distillation Makes AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

July 18, 2025

Fundamental technique lets researchers use a big, expensive “teacher” model to train a “student” model for less.

Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity

June 30, 2025

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.

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How AI Models Are Helping to Understand — and Control — the Brain

June 18, 2025

Martin Schrimpf is crafting bespoke AI models that can induce control over high-level brain activity.

Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans?

May 1, 2025

AI may sound like a human, but that doesn’t mean that AI learns like a human. In this episode, Ellie Pavlick explains why understanding how LLMs can process language could unlock deeper insights into both AI and the human mind.

What Happens When AI Starts To Ask the Questions?

April 30, 2025

Technology has forever served as science’s toolbox. But now that AI is being used to develop questions and methods as well, some scientists wonder what their role is going to become.

Mathematical Beauty, Truth and Proof in the Age of AI

April 30, 2025

Mathematicians have started to prepare for a profound shift in what it means to do math.

Why Language Models Are So Hard To Understand

April 30, 2025

AI researchers are using techniques inspired by neuroscience to study how language models work — and to reveal how perplexing they can be.

How Can AI ID a Cat? An Illustrated Guide.

April 30, 2025

Neural networks power today’s AI boom. To understand them, all we need is a map, a cat and a few thousand dimensions.

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