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How Can AI ID a Cat? An Illustrated Guide.
Neural networks power today’s AI boom. To understand them, all we need is a map, a cat and a few thousand dimensions.
When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History
Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.
What the Most Essential Terms in AI Really Mean
A simple primer to the 19 most important concepts in artificial intelligence.
The Strange Physics That Gave Birth to AI
Modern thinking machines owe their existence to insights from the physics of complex materials.
Improving Deep Learning With a Little Help From Physics
Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding results.
To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language
We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words. There may be a better way.
Three Hundred Years Later, a Tool from Isaac Newton Gets an Update
A simple, widely used mathematical technique can finally be applied to boundlessly complex problems.
The Physicist Working to Build Science-Literate AI
By training machine learning models with enough examples of basic science, Miles Cranmer hopes to push the pace of scientific discovery forward.
How ‘Event Scripts’ Structure Our Personal Memories
By screening films in a brain scanner, neuroscientists discovered a rich library of neural scripts — from a trip through an airport to a marriage proposal — that form scaffolds for memories of our experiences.