By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly—and efficiently—than…
Author: Anil Ananthaswamy
The Physics Principle That Inspired Modern AI Art
Diffusion models generate incredible images by learning to reverse the process that, among other things, causes…
Self-Taught AI May Have a Lot in Common With the Human Brain
Neural networks can use self-supervised learning to figure out what matters. This process might be what…
Your Brain Is an Energy-Efficient ‘Prediction Machine’
Results from neural networks support the idea that brains use predictions to create perceptions—and that they…
Deep Neural Networks Are Helping Decipher How Brains Work
Neuroscientists are finding that deep-learning networks, often criticized as “black boxes,” can be good models for…
Quantum Computers Could Be True Randomness Generators
Pure, verifiable randomness is essential to encryption yet hard to come by. Quantum computers could be…
A New Quantum Paradox Flags Errors in Our View of Reality
A weird thought experiment has shaken up the world of quantum physics by calling into question…
Loopholes and the ‘Anti-Realism’ of the Quantum World
After researchers found a loophole in a famous experiment designed to prove that quantum objects don’t…