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The Biggest Discoveries in Computer Science in 2023 | Quanta Magazine

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Video: In 2023, computer scientists made progress on a new vector-driven approach to AI, fundamentally improved Shor’s algorithm for factoring large numbers, and examined the surprising and powerful behaviors that can emerge from large language models. Myriam Wares for Quanta Magazine (cover); Emily Buder/Quanta Magazine and Taylor Hess and Noah Hutton for Quanta Magazine (video) Senior Editor December 20, 2023 In 2023, artificial intelligence dominated popular culture — showing up in everything from internet memes to Senate hearings. Large language models such as those behind ChatGPT fueled a lot of this excitement, even as researchers still struggled to pry open the “black box” that describes their inner workings. Image generation systems also routinely impressed and unsettled us with their artistic abilities, yet these were explicitly founded on concepts borrowed from physics. The year brought many other advances in computer science. Researchers made subtle but important progress on

The Biggest Discoveries in Computer Science in 2023 | Quanta Magazine Home The Year in Computer Science Read Later Share Copied! Comments Read Later Read Later Previous: 2023 in Review The Year in Biology Next: 2023 in Review The Year in Physics SERIES 2023 in Review The Year in Computer Science By Bill Andrews December 20, 2023 Artificial intelligence learned how to generate text and art better than ever before, while computer scientists developed algorithms that solved long-standing problems. Read Later By clicking to watch this video, you agree to our privacy policy. Video : In 2023, comput

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