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A fictitious 8-bit video game called “counterexample quest.”
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In New Math Proofs, Artificial Intelligence Plays to Win

By Leila Sloman
March 7, 2022
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A new computer program fashioned after artificial intelligence systems like AlphaGo has solved several open problems in combinatorics and graph theory.

neural networks

AI Overcomes Stumbling Block on Brain-Inspired Hardware

By Allison Whitten
February 17, 2022
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Algorithms that use the brain’s communication signal can now work on analog neuromorphic chips, which closely mimic our energy-efficient brains.

machine learning

Machine Learning Becomes a Mathematical Collaborator

By Kelsey Houston-Edwards
February 15, 2022
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Two recent collaborations between mathematicians and DeepMind demonstrate the potential of machine learning to help researchers generate new mathematical conjectures.

artificial intelligence

Computer Scientists Prove Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better

By Mordechai Rorvig
February 10, 2022
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Two researchers show that for neural networks to be able to remember better, they need far more parameters than previously thought.

quantum physics

Quantum Complexity Tamed by Machine Learning

By Charlie Wood
February 7, 2022
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If only scientists understood exactly how electrons act in molecules, they’d be able to predict the behavior of everything from experimental drugs to high-temperature superconductors. Following decades of physics-based insights, artificial intelligence systems are taking the next leap.

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Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup

By Max G. Levy
February 4, 2022
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Two teams have shown how quantum approaches can solve problems faster than classical computers, bringing physics and computer science closer together.

neural networks

Researchers Build AI That Builds AI

By Anil Ananthaswamy
January 25, 2022
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By using hypernetworks, researchers can now preemptively fine-tune artificial neural networks, saving some of the time and expense of training.

Video that zooms out from a close-up of a few simulated galaxies to a panoramic view of many different cube-shaped universes.
astrophysics

Any Single Galaxy Reveals the Composition of an Entire Universe

By Charlie Wood
January 20, 2022
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In computer simulations of possible universes, researchers have discovered that a neural network can infer the amount of matter in a whole universe by studying just one of its galaxies.

2021 in Review

The Year in Math and Computer Science

By Bill Andrews
December 23, 2021
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Mathematicians and computer scientists answered major questions in topology, set theory and even physics, even as computers continued to grow more capable.


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