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Large language models such as OpenAI’s o1 have electrified the debate over achieving artificial general intelligence, or AGI. But they are unlikely to reach this milestone on their own. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Proportional representation or winner takes all? Here’s how researchers compare the merits of contrasting voting methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The advent of LLMs has reopened a debate about the limits of machine intelligence — and requires new benchmarks of what reasoning consists of. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Roger Penrose, now 93, never shied away from wild ideas and the ensuring debates. The first full-length biography reveals more about the mathematician and the man. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientists worry that ill-informed use of artificial intelligence is driving a deluge of unreliable or useless research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers, educators and companies are experimenting with ways to turn flawed but famous large language models into trustworthy, accurate ‘thought partners’ for learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Survey highlights disparity between academic and industry scientists’ access to computing power needed to train machine-learning models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

John Hopfield has had a varied career and delights in working in the cracks between disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

‘Soft cells’ — shapes with rounded corners and pointed tips that fit together on a plane — feature in onions, molluscs and more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deceptive videos and images created using generative AI could sway elections, crash stock markets and ruin reputations. Researchers are developing methods to limit their harm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Nature survey finds that scientists are concerned, as well as excited, by the increasing use of artificial-intelligence tools in research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Large language models mimic human chatter, but scientists disagree on their ability to reason. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cryptographers are preparing for new quantum computers that will break their ciphers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A pseudo-religion dressed up as technoscience promises human transcendence at the cost of extinction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AlphaProof showed its prowess on questions from this year’s Mathematical Olympiad — a step in the race to create substantial proofs with artificial intelligence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers gave successive versions of a large language model information produced by previous generations of the AI — and observed rapid collapse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As generative AI models grow larger and more powerful, some scientists advocate for leaner, more energy-efficient systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mathematicians leading decolonization efforts say that building knowledge-sharing partnerships with communities is key. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Predictive models don’t make the news, but they have a crucial role in democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientists are closing in on a tool that can reliably identify AI-generated text without affecting the user’s experience. But the technology’s robustness remains a challenge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The effect of melting polar ice could delay the need for a ‘leap second’ by three years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mathematicians and their collaborators discuss the joys and challenges of working together on projects in science and the arts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fifty years ago, an equation called the Black–Scholes formula revolutionized finance, leading to a rapid growth of markets and stimulating quantitatively oriented minds. But, with time, its simplicity became a liability — and yet its legacy persists. Fifty years of the Black–Scholes equation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To avert privacy breaches, scams and environmental damage, governments and central banks need to know how best to regulate this financial frontier. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers are excited but apprehensive about the latest advances in artificial intelligence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The quantum computer revolution could break encryption — but more-secure algorithms can safeguard privacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Michel Talagrand laid mathematical groundwork that has allowed others to tackle problems involving random processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Documentary reveals how Black US scholars shaped today's mathematics community and provides hope for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prestigious awards such as the Fields Medal, Abel Prize and Breakthrough Prize have been awarded predominantly to men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Voisin won this year’s Crafoord Prize in Mathematics for research inspired by string theory, and work on a million-dollar unsolved problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A branch of computer science known as genetic programming has been given a boost with the application of large language models that are trained on the combined intuition of the world’s programmers.Autonomous mathematical discovery enabled by LLMs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Large language model improves on efforts to solve combinatorics problems inspired by the card game Set. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the FIFA tournament kicks off, researchers are showing their skills to help soccer coaches develop players and tactics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cheap data and the absence of coincidences make maths an ideal testing ground for AI-assisted discovery — but only humans will be able to tell good conjectures from bad ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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From connectomics to behavioural biology, artificial intelligence is making it faster and easier to extract information from images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mimicking the snatch and grab of an octopus snaring its prey required a new way of thinking about robotics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pinpointing the state of a complex system is tricky, especially when the underlying mathematical equations aren’t known. But a data-driven technique makes light work of it — and could even change the way that models are formulated.A model-free tool for state estimation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A tragic scandal at the UK Post Office highlights the need for legal change, especially as organizations embrace artificial intelligence to enhance decision-making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Letter to the Editor [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Improvements in the performance of large language models such as ChatGPT are more predictable than they seem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trio of scientists who developed the combination drug Trikafta are among the winners of five major awards in life sciences, physics and mathematics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the resources required by artificial intelligence increase unsustainably, an analog design provides an energy-efficient alternative to digital computer chips — and one that is ideally suited to neural-network computations.Energy-efficient alternative to digital computer chips. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Now lying forgotten in many a drawer, the modern computer's handheld predecessors heralded an era of effortless calculation — an innovation 42,000 years in the making. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mathematics has a reputation of being all about cold, calculating logic — but that couldn’t be further from the truth, says Eugenia Cheng. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An algorithm has been developed for constructing a 3D shape that follows an infinitely repeating path as it rolls under gravity. The approach could have applications in quantum computing and medical imaging.3D objects that move on trajectories determined by their shape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using a quantum computer to speed up one step in a textbook approach to generating random numbers proves to be a savvy strategy, and one that could make good use of quantum computers that will be available in the near future.Classic algorithm accelerated by quantum computer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

‘Benchmark’ experiment suggests quantum computers could have useful real-world applications within two years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The technology developed by DeepMind that plays Go and chess can also help to write code. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]