Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win Turing award for AI training trick 05. March 2025 (11:00) The Turing award, often considered the Nobel prize of computing, has gone to two computer scientists for their work on reinforcement learning, a key technique in training artificial intelligence models(New Scientist)
Why exactly is the quantum world so weird? 04. March 2025 (15:00) We can describe the quantum realm using straightforward mathematics – but once we try to translate these ideas into the real world, things get weird. Our quantum columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan explains why(New Scientist)
Can genetically engineered 'woolly' mice help bring back the mammoth? 04. March 2025 (14:00) Colossal Biosciences has altered several genes in mice to make them look more mammoth-like, but the company is far from its goal of fully resurrecting woolly mammoths by 2028(New Scientist)
Cryptography trick could make AI algorithms more efficient 04. March 2025 (11:00) Encryption would normally be expected to slow down computation, but applying the tools of cryptography to "trick" an algorithm can actually make it work faster(New Scientist)
