Using math to ensure AI systems can operate safely

As artificial intelligence (AI) takes on increasingly critical roles—from managing power grids to piloting autonomous ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Google Wants Superintelligent AI. First It Has to Beat Teen Math Prodigies

While 630 young math prodigies were sitting in a conference room on Australia’s sunshine coast, readying their pencils for the International Math Olympiad, a potential rival was still en route from ...
IEEE

Characterization and Selection of Probability Density Function in a Discrete Random Switching Period SVPWM Strategy

Abstract: Aiming at suppressing the switching frequency harmonics in the integrated permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) systems, a discrete random switching period (DRSP) space vector pulse ...
Liverpool Echo

UK digital ID plans announced by Keir Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer says plans for a new digital ID held on people's phones will be an "enormous opportunity" for the UK and make working illegally tougher. Digital ID will become mandatory as a means of ...
Harvard Business Review

Getting AI to Scale

Don’t try to change everything at once, but do begin with something important. by Tim Fountaine, Brian McCarthy and Tamim Saleh Most CEOs recognize that artificial intelligence has the potential to ...
Wired

The New Math of Quantum Cryptography

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...
CoinDesk

U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept'

The U.S. government has begun using blockchains to disseminate key economic data, starting with the U.S. Department of Commerce's release of gross-domestic product (GDP) numbers on Thursday, which was ...
Scientific American

How Teen Mathematician Hannah Cairo Disproved a Major Mathematical Wave Conjecture

When Hannah Cairo was 17 years old, she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a long-standing guess in the field of harmonic analysis about how waves behave on curved surfaces. The conjecture ...
The Verge

Tim Cook says Apple ‘must’ figure out AI and ‘will make the investment to do it’

Apple’s CEO hosted a rare all-hands with staff on Friday, where he presented an optimistic vision for Apple’s AI efforts. Apple’s CEO hosted a rare all-hands with staff on Friday, where he presented ...
Nature

The breakthrough proof bringing mathematics closer to a grand unified theory

Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann. One of the biggest ...
CBSSports.com

Here's the math and data that prove why the NCAA Tournament doesn't need to expand

The Division I men's basketball committee will convene in Savannah, Georgia, this week for its annual summer summit. There are many items on the agenda, but only one of them is of pivotal significance ...