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Quanta’s award-winning coverage of computational complexity, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, cryptography and more.

Melanie Mitchell has worked on digital minds for decades. She says they’ll never truly be like ours until they can make analogies. Same or Different? The Question Flummoxes Neural Networks. For all ...

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