Researchers: OpenAI's o1 analyzes languages as well as a human expert, including inferring the phonological rules of made-up languages without prior knowledge
If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data
He and his team turned to AI — in particular, a software suite first created by the physicist Mario Krenn to design tabletop experiments in quantum optics. Bluesky: @hern , @hern , and @quantamagazine...
An oral history from 19 current and former natural language processing researchers of the past five years, including how LLMs and ChatGPT disrupted their fields
There was one about using BERT to unredact the Mueller report, which is a terrible idea. It seemed like there was just a never-ending supply … Bluesky: @markriedl , @coocho , @melaniemitchell , and @...
In a January paper, three computer scientists presented a faster hash table, one of the oldest data structures, disproving a 40-year-old data science conjecture
Together, Krapivin (now a graduate student at the University of Cambridge), Farach-Colton (now at New York University) …
Google says it made a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap
Is Bitcoin's security at risk? Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider : Willow Wows Elon Musk in X Exchange With Sundar Pichai Mudit Dube / NewsBytes : Google makes quantum computing breakthrough with new ...
Google says it had a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap
Google today introduced its latest quantum chip — Willow (~100 qubits) — coinciding with two key achievements run on the new chip …
Q&A with physicist Lenka Zdeborová on how the physics of phase transitions in matter can help model the behavior of algorithms, understanding LLMs, and more
Quanta spoke with Zdeborová about the similarities between water and algorithms, using physics … X: @theomitsa , @epfl_en , @abatanasov , and @quantamagazine X: Dr. Theophano Mitsa / @theomitsa : Fant...
An in-depth look at the development of Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, which had the biggest AI breakthrough in science by accurately predicting protein structures
When Google's public relations machine churned the news out to the world, the media went wild. Headlines claimed that AlphaFold2 “will change everything.”
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs detail AlphaFold 3, an AI model to predict interactions and structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, more, beating many top methods
DeepMind adds a diffusion engine to latest protein-folding software … Glyn Moody / @glynmoody@mastodon.social : AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life's molecules - https:/...
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness
friend and mentor to so many (including me) https://www.acm.org/... Tarun Chitra / @tarunchitra : Some of my favorite Wigderson papers are: 1. Hardness vs. Randomness 2. Algebrization: A new barrier i...
In two recent papers, researchers detail a new breakthrough to speed up matrix multiplication, potentially leading to savings in computational power and money
By eliminating a hidden inefficiency, computer scientists have come up with a new way to multiply large matrices that's faster than ever.
A look at Poisson flow generative models, a physics-inspired alternative to diffusion-based AI models that can create the same quality images 10X to 20X faster
'PFGM can create images of the same quality as those produced by diffusion-based approaches and do so 10 to 20 times faster. “It utilizes a physical construct, the electric field, in a way we've neve...
An interview with Yael Tauman Kalai, a Microsoft cryptographer who won the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing, on cryptography, “post-quantum” security, and more
Yael Tauman Kalai's breakthroughs secure the digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future.
An interview with Yael Tauman Kalai, a Microsoft cryptographer who won the 2022 ACM Prize in Computing, on cryptography, “post-quantum” security, and more
Yael Tauman Kalai's breakthroughs secure the digital world, from cloud computing to our quantum future. Mastodon: @nancybaym@aoir.social . Twitter: @boazbaraktcs , @andrewf11526574 , @quantamagazine ,...
A study suggests that the human brain and artificial general-purpose neural networks process language sounds in similar ways
Researchers uncover striking parallels in the ways that humans and machine learning models acquire language skills. — How do brains learn?
The Association for Computing Machinery awards Bob Metcalfe the Turing Award for his work on Ethernet at the Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s
In the 1970s, Bob Metcalfe helped develop the primary technology that lets you send email or connect with a printer over an office network.
A look at “liquid” neural nets, which change their underlying algorithms based on observed inputs, making them more flexible than standard ML neural networks
A look at “liquid” neural nets, which change their underlying algorithms based on observed inputs, making them more flexible than standard ML neural networks
“Liquid” neural nets, based on a worm's nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability. Tweets: @quantamagazine , @mit_csail , @...
A look at FORM software, released in the 1980s for particle physics calculation, which is maintained almost entirely by a retiree and is at risk of obsolescence
A look at FORM, a 1980s software used for the hardest particle physics problems, as it risks obsolescence while being maintained almost entirely by a retiree
Maintenance of the software that's used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree.