Over the years, mathematicians found that the twisted shapes exist in dimensions 2, 6, 14, 30 and 62. They also showed that ...

With AI, “we are in the process not of re-creating human biology,” said Thomas Naselaris, a neuroscientist at the University ...

La Géométrie, a short appendix that appeared in Descartes’ famous Discourse on the Method, laid the foundations of analytic ...

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

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 ...

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

AI researchers are using techniques inspired by neuroscience to study how language models work — and to reveal how perplexing they can be.

In the course of reporting this series on the impact of artificial intelligence on science and math, Quanta writers interviewed close to 100 experts — computer scientists, biologists, physicists, ...