For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert

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For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has...

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This AI Model Can Intuit How the Physical World Works

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Here’s a test for infants: Show them a glass of water on a desk....

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Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew...

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The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise...

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AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work

“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said Aephraim Steinberg, an expert on...

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How to Make AI Faster and Smarter—With a Little Help from Physics

What exactly is AI Scientist—just a fancy kind of neural net?It’s not a single neural network, but rather an ensemble of computer programs...

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Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Large language models work well because they’re so large. The latest models from OpenAI,...

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