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AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, an expert on quantum optics at the University...
How to Make AI Faster and Smarter—With a Little Help from Physics
What exactly is AI Scientist—just a fancy kind of neural net?It’s not a single neural network, but rather an ensemble of computer programs that can help scientists make...
Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI, Meta, and DeepSeek use hundreds...
Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career:Bohr: Algebra is like sheet music. The important thing...
Light-Based Chips Could Help Slake AI’s Ever-Growing Thirst for Energy
“What we have here is something incredibly simple,” said Tianwei Wu, the study’s lead author. “We can reprogram it, changing the laser patterns on the fly.” The researchers...
How Game Theory Can Make AI More Reliable
Posing a far greater challenge for AI researchers was the game of Diplomacy—a favorite of politicians like John F. Kennedy and Henry Kissinger. Instead of just two opponents,...
