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A new version of AlphaGo needed no human instruction to figure out how to clobber the best Go player in the world — itself.
What happens when you increase the number of layers in an artificial neural network?
A new idea is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms — and might also explain how human brains learn.
A tiny self-organized mesh full of artificial synapses recalls its experiences and can solve simple problems. Its inventors hope it points the way to devices that match the brain’s energy-efficient computing prowess.
Computer scientists are finding ways to code curiosity into intelligent machines.
Recent tests show that quantum computers made by D-Wave systems should solve some problems faster than ordinary computers. Researchers have begun to map out exactly which queries might benefit from these quantum machines.
A project to decipher the brain’s learning rules could revolutionize machine learning.
The Go-playing program teaches itself to replicate something very much like human intuition, an advance that promises far-reaching consequences.
The biological world is computational at its core, argues computer scientist Leslie Valiant.