Physics

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Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability
Physics

Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability

It’s an exciting time for AI, with fascinating advances in generated media and many other applications, some even in science and medicine. Some folks may dream about what more AI can create and how much bigger models we may engineer.

December 28, 20223 min read
Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability
Physics

Been Kim: Google Brain researcher Been Kim envisions a scientific approach to interpretability

It’s an exciting time for AI, with fascinating advances in generated media and many other applications, some even in science and medicine. Some folks may dream about what more AI can create and how much bigger models we may engineer.

December 28, 20223 min read
Airfoils Automatically Optimized: DeepMind AI Research Simulates Fluid Dynamics
Physics

Airfoils Automatically Optimized: DeepMind AI Research Simulates Fluid Dynamics

Engineers who design aircraft, aqueducts, and other objects that interact with air and water use numerical simulations to test potential shapes, but they rely on trial and error to improve their designs. A neural simulator can optimize the shape itself.

June 15, 20222 min read
Airfoils Automatically Optimized: DeepMind AI Research Simulates Fluid Dynamics
Physics

Airfoils Automatically Optimized: DeepMind AI Research Simulates Fluid Dynamics

Engineers who design aircraft, aqueducts, and other objects that interact with air and water use numerical simulations to test potential shapes, but they rely on trial and error to improve their designs. A neural simulator can optimize the shape itself.

June 15, 20222 min read
High-Energy Deep Learning: Machine learning helps stabilize nuclear fusion.
Physics

High-Energy Deep Learning: Machine learning helps stabilize nuclear fusion.

Nuclear fusion technology, long touted as an unlimited source of safe, clean energy, took a step toward reality with a machine learning algorithm that molds the fuel in a reactor’s core.

February 24, 20223 min read
High-Energy Deep Learning: Machine learning helps stabilize nuclear fusion.
Physics

High-Energy Deep Learning: Machine learning helps stabilize nuclear fusion.

Nuclear fusion technology, long touted as an unlimited source of safe, clean energy, took a step toward reality with a machine learning algorithm that molds the fuel in a reactor’s core.

February 24, 20223 min read
Physics Simulations Streamlined: Using neural networks to speed up physics simulations
Physics

Physics Simulations Streamlined: Using neural networks to speed up physics simulations

Computer simulations do a good job of modeling physical systems from traffic patterns to rocket engines, but they can take a long time to run. New work takes advantage of deep learning to speed them up.

December 16, 20202 min read
Physics Simulations Streamlined: Using neural networks to speed up physics simulations
Physics

Physics Simulations Streamlined: Using neural networks to speed up physics simulations

Computer simulations do a good job of modeling physical systems from traffic patterns to rocket engines, but they can take a long time to run. New work takes advantage of deep learning to speed them up.

December 16, 20202 min read
Prelude to a Quake?
Physics

Prelude to a Quake?

Geologists call them slow slips: deep, low-frequency earthquakes that can last a month but have little effect on the surface. A model trained to predict such events could help with forecasting potentially catastrophic quakes.

October 2, 20201 min read
Prelude to a Quake?
Physics

Prelude to a Quake?

Geologists call them slow slips: deep, low-frequency earthquakes that can last a month but have little effect on the surface. A model trained to predict such events could help with forecasting potentially catastrophic quakes.

October 2, 20201 min read
U.S. Proposes National AI Centers: U.S. proposes $180 million for AI research.
Physics

U.S. Proposes National AI Centers: U.S. proposes $180 million for AI research.

The White House called for new funding for AI research including a constellation of research centers. Nonetheless, the U.S. government’s annual spending on the technology still would lag behind that of several other...

September 2, 20202 min read
U.S. Proposes National AI Centers: U.S. proposes $180 million for AI research.
Physics

U.S. Proposes National AI Centers: U.S. proposes $180 million for AI research.

The White House called for new funding for AI research including a constellation of research centers. Nonetheless, the U.S. government’s annual spending on the technology still would lag behind that of several other...

September 2, 20202 min read
Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3
Physics

Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3

People granted early access to OpenAI’s latest language model are raving about its way with words — and more. Beta testers of GPT-3 are showing off the model’s ability to write business memos, craft blogs, pen tweets, and even generate computer code.

July 29, 20202 min read
Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3
Physics

Generation Text: How beta testers reacted to GPT-3

People granted early access to OpenAI’s latest language model are raving about its way with words — and more. Beta testers of GPT-3 are showing off the model’s ability to write business memos, craft blogs, pen tweets, and even generate computer code.

July 29, 20202 min read
(Science) Community Outreach: A survey of machine learning from Eric Schmidt
Physics

(Science) Community Outreach: A survey of machine learning from Eric Schmidt

Are your scientist friends intimidated by machine learning? They might be inspired by a primer from one of the world’s premier tech titans. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Cornell PhD candidate Maithra Raghu school scientists in machine learning in a sprawling overview.

April 8, 20201 min read

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