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A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

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In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Abstract: Partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous to the mathematical description of physical phenomena. Typical examples describe the evolution of a field in time as a function of its ...

Materials inspired by nature, or biomimetic materials, are nothing new. Scientists have designed water-resistant materials inspired by lotus leaves and rose petals, unsinkable metals based on the ...

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In today’s data-rich environment, business are always looking for a way to capitalize on available data for new insights and increased efficiencies. Given the escalating volumes of data and the ...

Microsoft Research has developed a new reinforcement learning framework that trains large language models for complex reasoning tasks at a fraction of the usual computational cost. The framework, ...