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Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers

By John Pavlus
April 30, 2020
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The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. Now a new approach, borrowing from two disparate lines of thinking, has made important progress.

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Machine Learning Takes On Antibiotic Resistance

By Katherine Harmon Courage
March 9, 2020
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To combat resistant bacteria and refill the trickling antibiotic pipeline, scientists are getting help from deep learning networks.

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Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem.

By Natalie Wolchover
January 30, 2020
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By teaching machines to understand our true desires, one scientist hopes to avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of having them do what we command.

Illustration of a pair of lungs being scanned in three dimensions, with a status bar that reads “Scanning lung tissue: 60%.”
artificial intelligence

An Idea From Physics Helps AI See in Higher Dimensions

By John Pavlus
January 9, 2020
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The laws of physics stay the same no matter one’s perspective. Now this idea is allowing computers to detect features in curved and higher-dimensional space.

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Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence

By Matthew Hutson
November 6, 2019
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By ignoring their goals, evolutionary algorithms have solved longstanding challenges in artificial intelligence.

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neuroscience

A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced

By Jordana Cepelewicz
October 22, 2019
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Researchers have discovered a surprising mathematical relationship in the brain’s representations of sensory information, with possible applications to AI research.

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Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?

By John Pavlus
October 17, 2019
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A tool known as BERT can now beat humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests. But it’s also revealed how far AI has to go.

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Computers and Humans ‘See’ Differently. Does It Matter?

By Kevin Hartnett
September 17, 2019
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In some ways, machine vision is superior to human vision. In other ways, it may never catch up.

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mathematical biology

A Mathematical Model Unlocks the Secrets of Vision

By Kevin Hartnett
August 21, 2019
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Mathematicians and neuroscientists have created the first anatomically accurate model that explains how vision is possible.


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