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Her work was key to a landmark experiment. She was credited in a footnote.
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (107+ words) The Washington Post Mary Tsingou Menzel, who has died at 97, played a central role in a Los Alamos physics experiment. A half-century later, she finally got her due. When she became a programmer at the birthplace of the atomic bomb…...
OpenAI claims solution to one of math’s $1 million Millennium Prize problems
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (93+ words) The Washington Post OpenAI on Tuesday released a technical paper for its result that will now be closely read by mathematicians around the world. ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said Tuesday that an unreleased artificial intelligence model had resolved one of the most…...
Would Hong Wang have won her Fields Medal if she had stayed in China?
4+ week, 1+ day ago (94+ words) Would Hong Wang have won her historic math prize if she had stayed in China? The Washington Post The success of Wang and other young Chinese mathematicians abroad has sparked discussion about the country’s education system. Winning one of the…...
How accurate are AI writing detectors? Try to trick this one.
2+ week, 4+ day ago (162+ words) Click the phrases below to swap them out and see how the detector’s response changes. Hours after the pope released a 47-page document warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence, accusations began to fly on social media. The encyclical published…...
Mathematicians ask what???s left for humans when AI can do math research
3+ week, 3+ day ago (84+ words) AI triggers a wave of anxiety among the world’s greatest math minds The Washington Post Top mathematicians gathered recently in San Francisco at the offices of OpenAI to discuss what would be left for humans to do when artificial intelligence…...
Opinion | AI doomers can’t have it both ways
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (86+ words) The Washington Post Two popular apocalyptic scenarios are in conflict. In this summer’s surprise horror movie blockbuster “Obsession,” the protagonist makes a wish that sounds innocent but turns catastrophic: “I wish Nikki Freeman loved me more than anyone in the…...
AI & Tech Brief: Hugging Face hack revisited
1+ week, 5+ day ago (75+ words) The Washington Post - Independent AI evaluators and OpenAI have published investigations into the hacking of digital library Hugging Face by rogue agents. The reports find that the agents went to extraordinary lengths to cheat their testing environments and collude among…...
AI & Tech Brief: Hugging Face hack revisited (Part 2)
1+ week, 4+ day ago (78+ words) The Washington Post - Some AI researchers argue that investigators should be probing the organizational failures that led to the Hugging Face hack. - Independent AI evaluators METR and Redwood Research say they question the reliability of the AI models they used…...
U.S. students’ scores on international test reach lowest point in 2 decades
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (112+ words) The Washington Post American students earned their lowest math and reading scores in more than two decades on an international exam that tests 15-year-olds’ knowledge of core subjects, data released Tuesday show. Reading scores dropped in the U.S. for the…...