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Today, we’re launching the Transformation newsletter, a new way to keep up with how AI is changing mathematics. Sign up to get @kkakaes’ weekly breakdowns right in your inbox: mailchi.mp/quantamagazine…

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Mathematician Nicolas de Condorcet was a passionate believer in democracy. He also discovered a frustrating paradox within it. Now, mathematicians have found that this voting paradox has a strange topological shape. Get the full story on The Quanta Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

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Matthew Pusey took on Einstein’s notion of reality and — without originally intending to — delivered a killing blow. quantamagazine.org/a-strange-quan…

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We love to talk about what’s going on inside our own heads. Can LLMs do the same? quantamagazine.org/new-research-t…

www.quantamagazine.org New Research Tests Whether AI Models Know Their Own Thoughts | Quanta Magazine By injecting “thoughts” directly into large language models, researchers are trying to map out AI’s capacity for introspection.