Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

At first glance, recent news stories may appear to spell doom for the polling industry. Instead of asking real people for their opinions, some companies are asking artificial intelligence what people ...

Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. Dr. Recht is a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. See ...

Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the ...

A new study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SII Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR) shows that training large language models (LLMs) for complex, autonomous tasks does not require massive datasets.

How can we be sure that there is sufficient data for our model, such that the predictions remain reliable on unseen data and the conclusions drawn from the fitted model would not vary significantly ...

Online data has the potential to transform how researchers and companies produce election forecasts. Social media surveys, online panels, and even comments scraped from the internet can offer valuable ...

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Here is a depressing fact: over the coming decades, sea-level rise will continue to threaten ecosystems, communities and cities. No matter how quickly we reduce our carbon emissions, our past ...