‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs
Mathematician and author Steven Strogatz starts to cry when he talks about the artificial-intelligence-driven breakthroughs in his field…
Ian Brady appointed chief executive of financial planner Fairstone – The Irish Times
Ian Brady has today been announced as the next chief executive of financial planning firm Fairstone Ireland, succeeding…
Scientists unravel new physics after laser diffracts in chiral patters
Scientists at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the University of Tokyo in Japan have come across…
Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans
You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can…
Mathematicians grapple with a ‘very rapid and very unsettling change’ as AI cracks yet another century-old problem
On Sunday afternoon, while the rest of the world’s eyes were glued to the World Cup final, an…
Researchers Claim to Have Solved the Perplexing ‘Reverse Sprinkler’ Problem That Stumped Feynman
Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the most famous lawn-care-related problem in all of…
Quantum Mechanics May Not Need Imaginary Numbers After All
Quantum mechanics has long relied on complex numbers to describe the strange behavior of particles, from tunneling to…
Claude’s Solution to Decades-Long Math Mystery Is ‘Essentially Correct,’ Physicists Say
As typically is the case with AI, whether it truly adds any value to human work depends on…
Physicists Solve a “Quantum-Only” Problem Using an Ordinary Laptop
Tensor networks enable researchers to tackle quantum physics problems previously thought to be solvable only by quantum computers.…
As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution
Recently there are signs that some branches of higher mathematics, among the most rarefied realms of human achievement,…
Opinion | We Have to Take the Future of A.I. Into Our Own Hands
So far, the policy conversation about A.I. has focused on preventing harms to the public. What if A.I.…
A Hidden Pattern in Famous Abstract Art Reveals a Secret Mathematical “Golden Rule” Linked to Human Perception
When most people think of visual art, they don’t usually think of math at the same time. One…