AI & Tech Brief: Exclusive|Amnon Shashua preps AI coding product

Welcome to WP Intelligence’s AI & Tech Brief, where we examine the transformative technology of artificial intelligence at ...
IEEE

Weapon Target Assessment With Dynamic Hit Probabilities and Heterogeneous Targets: A Two-Stage Model and Solving Algorithms

Abstract: As a classic optimization problem, the weapon target assignment (WTA) problem is widely studied. However, existing WTA models are mostly established on single-hit destruction and static hit ...
SciTech Daily

Physicists Solve a “Quantum-Only” Problem Using an Ordinary Laptop

Tensor networks enable researchers to tackle quantum physics problems previously thought to be solvable only by quantum computers. Credit: Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation By applying a 1980s ...

The World Cup’s Group Stage Coordination Problem

Australia and Paraguay face a World Cup Group D coordination problem where a draw may be the safest path to knockout ...

A.I.’s First Big Math Breakthrough Is Not What It Seems

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...
NPR

Bumblebees have tiny brains but they can solve problems like chimps and elephants

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...
Interesting Engineering

Bumble bees spontaneously solve object-manipulation tasks without prior training

A century ago, a psychologist named Wolfgang Köhler proved that chimpanzees could solve complex problems. He hung a banana high out of reach. The chimps sat, thought, and suddenly stacked wooden boxes ...
Science News

Bumblebees can solve problems on their own

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...
Ars Technica

Bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, study finds

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...
CNN

Bumblebees show advanced problem-solving skills in new experiment

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...
talker

Bumblebees able to problem solve despite having tiny brains

Bumblebees are the brainboxes of the insect world, suggests new research. The garden pollinators are able to solve puzzles spontaneously — despite having tiny brains, scientists say. Bumblebees were ...
SciTech Daily

MIT Engineers Solve a Major Lidar Problem That Has Stumped Researchers for Years

This illustration shows an array of integrated antennas developed by MIT researchers (right) that minimizes the unwanted crosstalk that can occur in a standard antenna array (left). This innovation ...