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AI surprises; Probing meta-complexity; Turing machines

Math and Science News from Quanta Magazine View this email in your browser ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | ALL TOPICS   The Unpredictable Abilities Emerging From Large AI Models By STEPHEN ORNES Large language models like ChatGPT are now big enough that they've started to display startling, unpredictable behaviors. Read the article MACHINE LEARNING   A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence By ANIL ANANTHASWAMY By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly and efficiently than before. Read the article COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY   Complexity Theory's 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge By BEN BRUBAKER How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? A string of recent results has started to deliver answers. Read the article   NEURAL NETWORKS   Researchers Discover a More Flexible Approach to Machine Learning By STEVE NADIS "Liquid" neural nets, based on a worm's nervous system, can transform their underlying algorithms on the fly, giving them unprecedented speed and adaptability. Read the blog   ALGORITHMS   The Most Important Machine That Was Never Built By SHEON HAN At 23 years old, Alan Turing helped define computation, algorithms and what came to be known as Turing machines — the foundation for modern computing. Read the blog Follow Quanta Simons Foundation 160 5th Avenue, 7th Floor New York, NY 10010 Unsubscribe | About Quanta Privacy Policy | Terms | Contact Us   Copyright © 2023 Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent division of the Simons Foundation