1+ hour, 25+ min ago  (1898+ words) Last week, Open AI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erd's unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 years. Open AI gave several mathematicians early access to…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago  (1854+ words) In February, my colleague Kai Williams pointed out that LLMs have an uncanny ability to recognize authors based on their unpublished prose. In recent weeks, journalists like Megan Mc Ardle and Kelsey Piper have confirmed this. I decided to try…...

4+ mon, 40+ min ago  (1701+ words) Protein-folding models are the success story in AI for science. In the late 2010s, researchers from Google Deep Mind used machine learning to predict the three-dimensional shape of proteins. Alpha Fold 2, announced in 2020, was so good that its creators shared the…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago  (158+ words) It is great to see Waymo is doing so well. Then, it will continue to improve, while humans as a whole don't. The AI architecture of Waymo cars also has very good lessons for the current AI wave and other…...