More than 70 years ago, researchers at the forefront of artificial intelligence research introduced neural networks as a revolutionary way to think about how the brain works. In the human brain, ...

The challenge of speeding up AI systems typically means adding more processing elements and pruning the algorithms, but those approaches aren’t the only path forward. Almost all commercial machine ...

When you think about how a neural network can beat a Go champion or otherwise accomplish tasks that would be impractical for most computers, it's tempting to attribute the success to math. Surely it's ...

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Here’s a challenge for the mathematically inclined among you. Solve the following differential equation for y: You have 30 seconds. Quick! No dallying. The answer, of course, is: If you were unable to ...

If you said "seven," you're right. And you're also better at math than state-of-the-art deep learning neural networks. AI researchers from Google's DeepMind this week published research in which they ...

If today's college students could find a way to get their hands on a copy of Facebook's latest neural network, they could cheat all the way through Calc 3. They could even solve the differential ...

Your grade school teacher probably didn’t show you how to add 20-digit numbers. But if you know how to add smaller numbers, all you need is paper and pencil and a bit of patience. Start with the ones ...