t started as a fantasy, then a promise — inspired by biology and animated by the ideas of physicists — and grew to become a powerful research tool. Now artificial intelligence has evolved into ...

In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ordinary physical systems put hard limits on ...

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

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 they can be.

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, ...

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

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