Artificial intelligence stands poised to transform our society, yet we hardly understand how it works. A synthesis of physics, neuroscience, and AI can fulfill an urgent need: to build a new, unified ...

There is a “fierce urgency” to understand how artificial intelligence works, says Stanford physicist Surya Ganguli, who is leading a project to bring the inner workings of AI to light through transpar...

Simons Foundation Launches Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation on Simons Foundation

We obtain an analytic, interpretable and predictive theory of creativity in convolutional diffusion models. Indeed, score-matching diffusion models can generate highly original images that lie far fro...

YouTube video by Kempner Institute at Harvard University

YouTube video by Kempner Institute at Harvard University

Move that seeks political control of doctors’ and scientists’ published research fits a pattern of censorship by the Trump administration, veterans advocates say

In support of protecting free and open scientific inquiry and publication, we are collecting short testimonials from researchers on the impact of censorship on their work and the broader community. T...

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An NIH funding policy is misguided and damaging

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The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) urges you to take immediate action to protect the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its pivotal role in advancing cancer research, improving p...

AI is evolving into a mysterious new form of intelligence — powerful yet flawed, capable of remarkable feats but still far from human-like reasoning and efficiency. To truly understand it and unlock i...

At a conceptual level, LLMs profoundly change the landscape for theories of human language, of the brain and computation, and of the nature of human intelligence. In linguistics, they provide a new wa...

The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in critical decision-making and evaluation processes raises concerns about inherent biases that malicious actors could exploit to distort decision outcom...