Tag: mathematics
How This AI Breakthrough with Pure Mathematics and Reinforcement Learning Could Help Predict Future Crises
How an Unsolved Math Problem Could Train AI to Predict Crises Years in Advance An artificial intelligence breakthrough uses reinforcement learning to tackle the Andrews-Curtis conjecture, solving long-standing counterexamples and hinting at tools for forecasting stock crashes, diseases and climate disasters By Deni Ellis Béchard edited by Dean Visser & Clara Moskowitz Imagine knowing that…
How the Mathematics of Honesty Underlies These Auctions
How Honesty Won This Economist a Nobel Prize Here’s the surprising math at the heart of auction theory By Jack Murtagh edited by Jeanna Bryner Auction theory suggests a bidder in some auctions would get the best price with … honesty. You’re at a blind auction, and the rules are simple. If you see something…