The promise is seductive: a world of frictionless creation, where the only barrier to building software is the imagination itself. But in our pursuit of this ultimate abstraction, we risk a profound ...

The simplified approach makes it easier to see how neural networks produce the outputs they do. A tweak to the way artificial neurons work in neural networks could make AIs easier to decipher.

“Neural networks are currently the most powerful tools in artificial intelligence,” said Sebastian Wetzel, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. “When we scale them up to ...