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Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell
A group led by string theory veterans Burt Ovrut of the University of Pennsylvania and Andre Lukas of Oxford went further. They too started with Ruehle’s metric-calculating software,...
Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark, or BIG-bench, 450 researchers compiled a...
Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.A team of computer scientists has created a nimbler, more flexible type of machine learning model. The trick: It...
Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI
His group decided to find out. They built the new, diversified version of AlphaZero, which includes multiple AI systems that trained independently and on a variety of situations....
How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Driverless cars and planes are no longer the stuff of the future. In the city of San Francisco alone,...
Self-Taught AI May Have a Lot in Common With the Human Brain
For a decade now, many of the most impressive artificial intelligence systems have been taught using a huge inventory of labeled data. An image might be labeled “tabby...
