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Flood of AI ‘garbage’ is pushing open-source developers to the limit

The modern world depends on open-source software maintained by volunteers, but the added demands of checking and fixing AI-written submissions are causing some to burn out and quit

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Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

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Cheating just three times massively ups the chance of winning at chess

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We’re about to simulate a human brain on a supercomputer

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Yonathan Cohen at Quantum Machines speaking at AQC25 conference

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Quantum computers need classical computing to be truly useful

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Chemistry

Chemical computer can recognise patterns and perform multiple tasks

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Portrait of Sir Tim Berners-Lee in a rack of the CERN Computer Centre Date: 11-03-2019

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‘Most of it is good’: Tim Berners-Lee on the state of the web now

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Analogue computers could train AI 1000 times faster and cut energy use

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Memory chips just 10 atoms thick could vastly increase capacity

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Mind

Kids as young as 4 innately use sorting algorithms to solve problems

It was previously thought that children younger than 7 couldn't find efficient solutions to complex problems, but new research suggests that much earlier, children can happen upon known sorting algorithms used by computer scientists

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Mathematics

Why mathematicians want to destroy infinity – and may succeed

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Physics

We’ve discovered a new kind of magnetism. What can we do with it?

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Light-based computers are getting close to a commercial launch

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AI scientists are sceptical that modern models will lead to AGI

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