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Machine learning can get a boost from quantum physics. On certain types of machine learning tasks, quantum computers have an exponential advantage over standard computation, scientists report in the ...

In his years as a physics teacher, students often asked Mark Whalley why they had to learn the subject when most of them would never directly use it in their careers. Having never been satisfied with ...

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their contributions to machine learning. Their research, which draws from statistical physics, helped ...

Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind is planning to unravel the capability between human and artificial intelligence regarding cognition. The team created a special AI that can learn intuitive physics like ...

Teaching artificial intelligence to understand simple physics concepts, such as that one solid object can’t occupy the same space as another, could lead to more capable software that takes less ...

Listen to Professor Josh Samani describe how artificial intelligence reshapes education, why real-world connections prove essential to meaningful scientific understanding, and how his Iranian American ...