When René Descartes watched a mechanical figure move with lifelike precision in the 17th century, the scene unsettled him.

Turing machines were first proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1936, and are a theoretical mathematical model of what it means for a system to "be a computer." At a high level, these ...

As data privacy collides with AI’s rapid expansion, the Berkeley-trained technologist explains how a new generation of models ...

A new theoretical framework argues that the long-standing split between computational functionalism and biological naturalism misses how real brains actually compute.

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

Machine learning-based neural network potentials often cannot describe long-range interactions. Here the authors present an approach for building neural network potentials that can describe the ...

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Turing machines are widely believed to be universal, in the sense that any computation done by any system can also be done by a Turing machine. In a new article, researchers present their work ...