Will Transformers Take Over Artificial Intelligence?
Imagine going to your local hardware store and seeing a new kind of hammer on the shelf. You’ve heard about…
Category: computer science
How Close Are Computers to Automating Mathematical Reasoning?
In the 1970s, the late mathematician Paul Cohen, the only person to ever win a Fields Medal for work in…
Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks
More than 70 years ago, researchers at the forefront of artificial intelligence research introduced neural networks as a revolutionary way…
“What if mathematicians were asked to defuse bombs?”
In 1998, a few dozen computer scientists and mathematicians gathered at a picturesque seaside resort on the Tuscan island of…
Rise of the botnets
Armies of zombie computers caused a lot of mayhem in 2018. In January, one cluster of infected, connected machines attacked…
Quantum computing gets its “Hello World” moment.
Tech experts have long championed quantum computers as the next generation of machine, promising to solve big problems in lightning-fast…
Recognizing AI’s potential
FOR MORE THAN a century, pathologists have identified cancer by looking at slides containing tissue stained with dyes to make the…