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Uniting a Century of Digital and Analog Astronomy

To better understand our cosmos, some astronomers and astrophysicists go old school. Preserved beautifully on a hundred years of glass plate photographs are images of our night sky and its ever changing variations. On this episode of The Quanta Podcast, host Samir Patel speaks wi ...  Show more

Audio Edition: Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.The story Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity first appeared on ...  Show more

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