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Artificial Intelligence

What's actually happening in AI, minus the hype and the doom.

AI Just Won a Nobel Prize for Cracking a Problem That Stumped Biology for 50 Years

AI Just Won a Nobel Prize for Cracking a Problem That Stumped Biology for 50 Years

For 50 years, working out how a single protein folds took years of lab work. Then an AI learned to predict it in seconds — and it just won a Nobel Prize for it.

Your Chatbot Is Just Guessing the Next Word. So Why Is It So Good?

Your Chatbot Is Just Guessing the Next Word. So Why Is It So Good?

It doesn't look anything up or 'know' facts. It plays the most sophisticated game of autocomplete ever built — and that one idea explains what it gets brilliantly right and embarrassingly wrong.