Thinking Ahead: DeepMind’s New Way to Teach Models Foresight
DeepMind has published research on a training method it calls prospective credit assignment, designed to teach AI models to anticipate...
Month: July 2026
Refill by Robot: Utah’s AI Prescription Program Splits Doctors
A quiet pilot in Utah has become the sharpest test yet of how much medicine we are willing to hand...
Abstraction: The Ladder From Instances to Ideas
From many particular things we form a single idea that captures what they share and ignores the rest. This power...
Local Versus Global Minima
A search for the lowest point can end in a valley that is low but not lowest. Trapped in a...
Gradient Descent: Learning by Following the Slope
To find the bottom of a valley in fog, take small steps downhill. This simple rule, applied to the error...
Spurious Correlation: Patterns in Noise
Search enough data and you will find relationships that mean nothing. Two unrelated quantities can move together by chance, and...
The Law of Large Numbers
Toss a fair coin a few times and the results are erratic; toss it many times and the fraction of...
Randomness Versus Determinism
Is the world's apparent chance real, or merely hidden order we cannot trace? The question divides deterministic systems that only...
The Limits of Formal Systems
We build systems of axioms and rules hoping to capture a domain completely and mechanically. Yet such systems run into...
Information and the Black Hole Paradox
Throw something into a black hole and it seems to vanish, and when the hole slowly evaporates, its information appears...
