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Computer Sciences

DeepMind's AlphaCode attains 'average' rating in programming competition

A team of researchers at DeepMind has tackled another difficult task—generating computer code to satisfy a natural language request. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes the approach they ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

New optical computing approach offers ultrafast processing

Logic gates are the fundamental components of computer processors. Conventional logic gates are electronic—they work by shuffling around electrons—but scientists have been developing light-based optical logic gates to ...

Hardware

Energy-efficient computing with tiny magnetic vortices

A large percentage of energy used today is consumed in the form of electrical power for processing and storing data and for running the relevant terminal equipment and devices. According to predictions, the level of energy ...

Computer Sciences

The ChatGPT chatbot is blowing people away with its writing skills. An expert explains why it's so impressive

We've all had some kind of interaction with a chatbot. It's usually a little pop-up in the corner of a website, offering customer support—often clunky to navigate—and almost always frustratingly non-specific.

Computer Sciences

Finding the right AI for you

AI is a powerful tool for studying the human genome. But its recent popularity has inundated the field with innovation. With so many options, it's hard to know which AI algorithms work best. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ...

Hardware

Review of ferroelectric devices for intelligent computing

Transistors or "microchips" partially explain why our paper-thin laptops can perform much more complicated tasks than their clumsy, gigantic predecessors. To maximize computing capabilities, engineers are trying to make transistors ...

Computer Sciences

DeepMind's new AI app plays Stratego at expert level

A team of researchers at DeepMind Technologies Ltd., has created an AI application called "DeepNash" that is able to play the game Stratego at an expert level. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes ...