An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a ...

La Géométrie, a short appendix that appeared in Descartes’ famous Discourse on the Method, laid the foundations of analytic ...

Technology has forever served as science’s toolbox. But now that AI is being used to develop questions and methods as well, ...

With AI, “we are in the process not of re-creating human biology,” said Thomas Naselaris, a neuroscientist at the University ...

AI researchers are using techniques inspired by neuroscience to study how language models work — and to reveal how perplexing ...

Hallucinations / A common (but controversial) term of art for undesirable outputs produced by generative AI, such as when ...

Neural networks power today’s AI boom. To understand them, all we need is a map, a cat and a few thousand dimensions.

The Hopfield network was a “conceptual breakthrough,” said Marc Mézard, a theoretical physicist at Bocconi University in ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding results. When she was 10 years old, Rose Yu got a birthday present that would change her life — and, ...

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...