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@quantamagazine

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2025-07-22
The experiments that the AI software designed “were nothing that a human being would make, because it had no sense of symmetry, beauty, anything.  It was just a mess,” said physicist Rana Adhikari.  But the design was clearly effective.  —  www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up- ...
2025-07-22 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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 ,...

2025-05-01
What happens when AI upends an entire field?  Where do the experts go?  What do young people do?  Researchers studying natural language processing were among the very first to find out.  This is their story, told in their own words. www.quantamagazine.org/when- chatgpt...
2025-05-01 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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 , @mel...

2025-02-11
Without setting out to do so, Andrew Krapivin recently upended the common thinking around hash tables — one of the best-studied tools in computer science. Steve Nadis reports: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
2025-02-11 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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) …

2024-10-13
Lenka Zdeborová uses statistical techniques from physics to understand how large language models solve problems. Does she think of herself as a physicist, a computer scientist, or a mathematician? “I would say all of the above.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ... [image]
2024-10-13 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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...

2024-06-28
Three and a half years ago, artificial intelligence transformed the study of proteins. Prominent scientists in the field were left wondering: “What now?” It's finally possible to start answering that question. @yasemin_sap reports in a new extended feature:https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
2024-06-28 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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.”

Proteins do it all. Hemoglobin ferries oxygen around the body. Keratin structures hair, nails and skin. Insulin helps glucose convert into energy. The fold of a protein is critical to its function. Yet no one really knows specifically how protein folding happens. 1/15 [image]
2024-06-28 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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.”

In 2008, David Baker, one of the world's leading protein design experts, created an online game called @FoldIt, in which players fold strings of amino acids into protein structures. The game inspired computer scientists to study protein folding with AI. https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ... [image]
2024-06-28 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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.”

According to one researcher, Google DeepMind's creation of AlphaFold is “the biggest ‘machine learning in science’ story that there has been.” Read the full story of AlphaFold and what it means for the future of AI in biology. https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
2024-06-28 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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.”

2024-05-09
The folding of proteins determines how they function — and how they malfunction. New AI tools are making it possible to predict the structure of not only proteins, but also the complexes they form with DNA, RNA and other biomolecules. https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ... [image]
2024-05-09 View on X
Financial Times

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...

Diffusion algorithms help power generative art systems like DALL·E. Another algorithm, RoseTTAFold Diffusion All-Atom, uses a similar approach to let biologists design proteins and other biomolecules. https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
2024-05-09 View on X
Financial Times

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...

2023-09-21
Generative AI is getting a boost from physics. https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
2023-09-21 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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,...

Researchers are exploring whether “physics-inspired generative models” might offer more transparent and effective forms of artificial intelligence. Steve Nadis reports: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
2023-09-21 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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,...

2023-07-31
Yael Tauman Kalai is a computer scientist who is dedicated to ensuring we can trust our digital world. @parshallison reports: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
2023-07-31 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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.

When Yael Tauman Kalai was younger, she didn't care for math. In university, however, she uncovered a passion for the subject. “I was in euphoria.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ... [image]
2023-07-31 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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.

The integrity and security of our devices is crucial to the functioning of our world. Yael Tauman Kalai, a cryptographer and researcher at Microsoft, is responsible for many of the tools that can protect and verify our information. https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
2023-07-31 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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.

2023-07-30
The integrity and security of our devices is crucial to the functioning of our world. Yael Tauman Kalai, a cryptographer and researcher at Microsoft, is responsible for many of the tools that can protect and verify our information. https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
2023-07-30 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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...

When Yael Tauman Kalai was younger, she didn't care for math. In university, however, she uncovered a passion for the subject. “I was in euphoria.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ... [image]
2023-07-30 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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...

Yael Tauman Kalai is a computer scientist who is dedicated to ensuring we can trust our digital world. @parshallison reports: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
2023-07-30 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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...

2023-06-27
Nobel laureate John Goodenough, the University of Texas at Austin chemist who helped make lithium-ion batteries the preferred power source for modern mobile technology, has died at age 100. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-06-27 View on X
New York Times

John B. Goodenough, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his role in developing the lithium-ion battery used in mobile devices and EVs, dies at 100

An unassuming professor who remained active into his 90s, he is credited with the breakthrough that gave rise to the batteries powering today's electronic devices.

2023-05-24
A study led by researchers at UC Berkeley, the University of Washington and Johns Hopkins University suggests that natural and artificial networks learn in similar ways, at least when it comes to language. Steve Nadis reports: https://www.quantamagazine.org/ ...
2023-05-24 View on X
Quanta Magazine

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?