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Teaching AI to reason
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Teaching AI to reason

In the search for reliably autonomous artificial intelligence, researchers are layering AI with rationality.

Gold standard

Gold standard

A new class of cost-effective broadband absorbers shows promise in capturing light waves outside the visible range.

This sugarcane skin can sense arsenic

This sugarcane skin can sense arsenic

Researchers at IIT Kanpur have fashioned a stable sensing platform using sugarcane skin.

Mind the math gap

Mind the math gap

A new study flags the need to bridge the divide between formal maths teaching and innate 'marketplace' learning.

AI models for India

AI models for India

Indian enterprises have the opportunity to create domain-specific AI foundational models and build LLMs in Indian languages.

Guillain-Barré syndrome: a nervous breakdown

Guillain-Barré syndrome: a nervous breakdown

What we know so far about the rare neurological disorder that has triggered a health alarm in parts of India.

AI for a reason

For now, AI lacks the ability to solve problems through reason. However, a paradigm shift on that front seems imminent.

HARI PULAKKAT

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