Like a brain, a deep neural network has layers of neurons—artificial ones that are figments of computer memory. When a neuron fires, it sends signals to connected neurons in the layer above. During ...

AI has successfully been applied in many areas of science, advancing technologies like weather prediction and protein folding. However, there have been limitations for the world of scientific ...

As artificial intelligence systems become more powerful and widely adopted, they’re not becoming more clear—in fact, it’s often the reverse. Even AI developers can’t always explain how or why their ...

New Theory Cracks Open the Black Box of Deep Neural Networks A new idea called the “information bottleneck” is helping to explain the puzzling success of today’s artificial-intelligence algorithms—and ...