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Every Tuesday, editor in chief Samir Patel sits down with writers and editors to discuss our most thought-provoking stories in science and math. Audio editions of Quanta’s stories with Susan Valot will appear biweekly on Thursdays.

All Episodes about artificial intelligence

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

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Introducing The Quanta Podcast

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

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Tiny Language Models Come of Age

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Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t

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Machines Learn Better if We Teach Them the Basics

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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?

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Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science

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Foundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks

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Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room

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To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future

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Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

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