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Here is a special feature from Quanta Magazine, a series of AI articles.
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Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI
It started as a fantasy, then a promise — inspired by biology and animated by the ideas of physicists — and grew to become a powerful research tool. Now artificial intelligence has evolved into something else: a junior colleague, a partner in creativity, an impressive if unreliable wish-granting genie. It has changed everything, from how we relate to data and truth, to how researchers devise experiments and mathematicians think about proofs. In this special series, we explore how AI is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist.
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Where we are right now, and the science of how we got here.
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-physics-that-gave-birth-to-ai-20250430/
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-is-nothing-like-a-brain-and-thats-ok-20250430/
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-the-most-essential-terms-in-ai-really-mean-20250430/
Black Box
The innards of the most advanced AI systems are inscrutable, but perhaps not for long.
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-field-an-oral-history-20250430/
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-ai-id-a-cat-an-illustrated-guide-20250430/
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-language-models-are-so-hard-to-understand-20250430/
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An exploration of the profound impact the new technology is having on science and math.
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematical-beauty-truth-and-proof-in-the-age-of-ai-20250430/
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-happens-when-ai-starts-to-ask-the-questions-20250430/
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-do-scientists-think-this-is-all-going-20250430/
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How to Build an "Artificial Scientist".
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