Remember when your teachers used to say that mental math is important because you can’t walk around with a calculator everywhere you go? Never minding the fact that we now do, actually, take a calculator everywhere we go (hello, smartphones), a teenager from India has taken it a step further: He has essentially become a […]
‘A Maze the Size of Earth’: New AI Tackles Math Problems That Take Millions of Steps
Researchers have developed an artificially intelligent system that does the exact opposite of living in the moment. But it doesn’t just think a few steps ahead—it thinks millions of steps ahead. A team led by mathematician Sergei Gukov from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a new type of machine-learning algorithm designed to […]