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Can mathematicians still refuse to use AI at this point? | New Scientist (opens the original)
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I have been writing about mathematics for almost 20 years, and in that period, I don’t think there has ever been a time quite like today. For the majority of my career, landing a big maths story was something that happened perhaps every few months at most – the Venn diagram of maths results that are both interesting and explainable to a general audience has a pretty narrow overlap. That all changed as artificial intelligence became shockingly capable at mathematics, a story we have been covering
Worried about an AI apocalypse? Here's how to think about the risk of doom | New Scientist (opens the original)
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What are the chances that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity? Until recently, this wasn’t a question that most people worried about, yet in recent weeks, the discussion has broken through to the mainstream. You may have seen headlines saying there is a greater than 10 per cent chance that AI could kill all humans, but what does that actually mean? The honest answer is: very little. No one can produce a scientifically meaningful probability of an AI apocalypse – what people in AI circ
Hawking by Graham Farmelo review: A new biography of Stephen Hawking gets to grips with a complicated man | New Scientist (opens the original)
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Hawking Graham Farmelo (UK: John Murray, out 24 September; US: Bantam, out 24 November) Is there anything new left to say about Stephen Hawking? The world-famous physicist, who died in 2018, has been the subject of multiple books, documentaries and films, as well as penning dozens of his own tomes. In Hawking by Graham Farmelo, we now have the first authorised biography, and with it access to previously unpublished material from the Hawking family and others. Despite this, his family life is pro
A mathematical measure of surprise explains why we fall for clickbait | New Scientist (opens the original)
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This one weird trick allows journalists to grab your attention! This kind of clickbait works because it promises information without actually delivering it – in fact, clickbait headlines go out of their way to be as uninformative as possible. A headline such as “Trump wins election” contains more information than “You’ll never believe who just won the election”, despite the latter containing far more words. It might seem paradoxical that more information can be conveyed using fewer words, but th
The sneaky maths trick for solving problems without answering them | New Scientist (opens the original)
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A mathematician opens her office door to find a small fire. Without panicking, she looks around the room and spots a fire extinguisher. “Ah, a solution exists!” she says, before closing the door and continuing on with her day. Simply knowing it is possible to extinguish the fire is proof enough that the problem can be solved – why bother to actually go through the motions to do it? This old joke sums up how a lot of modern mathematics gets done, thanks to a sneaky tactic for problem-solving: the
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