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The Download: searching for brand-new matter, and Gary Marcus’ AI reviews

The Download: searching for brand-new matter, and Gary Marcus’ AI reviews

Technology
Inside the hunt for brand-new physics at the world's biggest particle collider In 2012, utilizing information from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, scientists found a particle called the Higgs boson. While doing so, they addressed a bothersome concern: Where do basic particles, such as the ones that comprise all the protons and neutrons in our bodies, get their mass? When the particle was lastly discovered, researchers commemorated with champagne. A Nobel for 2 of the physicists who anticipated the Higgs boson quickly followed. Now, more than a years later on, there is a sense of worry. That's due to the fact that there are still a lot of unanswered concerns about the essential constituents of deep space. Scientists are attempting something brand-new. They are repurposing detectors to l...
I chose a walk with Gary Marcus, AI’s loudest critic

I chose a walk with Gary Marcus, AI’s loudest critic

Technology
This story initially appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox initially, register here Gary Marcus satisfies me outside the post workplace of Vancouver's Granville Island using neon-coral tennis shoes and a blue Arc'teryx coat. I'm in town for a household thing, and Marcus has actually resided in the city because 2018, after 20 years in New York City. "I simply discover it to be paradise," he informs me, as I join him on his day-to-day walk around Granville Island and neighboring Kitsilano Beach. We've accepted stroll and speak about-- what else-- the present state of AI. "I'm depressed about it," he informs me. "When I entered into this field, it was not so that we might have an enormous turnover of wealth from artists to huge corpor...