Physics of Learning: A Scientific Collaboration to Understand AI's Fundamental Principles
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This article introduces a research collaboration focused on understanding the fundamental scientific principles underlying artificial intelligence. It notes that rapid engineering progress in AI (deep learning, LLMs, generative AI) far outpaces our scientific understanding of how these systems work. The collaboration employs tools from physics, mathematics, computer science, neuroscience, and statistics to analyze complex systems and elucidate AI's underlying principles.
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· 3 pulledRecent advances in artificial intelligence, including deep learning, large language models, and generative AI, stand poised to transform our economy, society and the very nature of scientific research itself.
Quite alarmingly, this rapid engineering progress far outstrips the rate at which we can scientifically understand it.
Our collaboration thus seeks to elucidate fundamental scientific principles underlying AI.
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