reinforcement learning

By bringing together disparate approaches, machines can reach a new level of creative problem-solving.

Large language models still struggle with basic reasoning tasks. Two new papers that apply machine learning to math provide a blueprint for how that could change.

A wave of research improves reinforcement learning algorithms by pre-training them as if they were human.

Inspired by the results of a game-playing neural network, mathematicians have been making unexpected advances on an age-old math problem.

Intelligent beings learn by interacting with the world. Artificial intelligence researchers have adopted a similar strategy to teach their virtual agents new tricks.

A new computer program fashioned after artificial intelligence systems like AlphaGo has solved several open problems in combinatorics and graph theory.

Two teams have shown how quantum approaches can solve problems faster than classical computers, bringing physics and computer science closer together.

After millions of games, machine learning algorithms found creative solutions and unexpected new strategies that could transfer to the real world.

The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-beating in a matter of hours. But researchers are struggling to apply these systems beyond the arcade.