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Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’

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The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil.

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When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History

Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.

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AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK

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Tiny Language Models Come of Age

Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t

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Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics

New Chip Expands the Possibilities for AI

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Machine Learning Gets a Quantum Speedup

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Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn

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

Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures

How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science

Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks