The Physics Reason AI Works When It Shouldn’t

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating by Brian Keating

Aug 25, 202677:53Science & Medicine

The same mathematics that explains why a fridge magnet sticks to your refrigerator also explains why neural networks work when they have no right to. His group did the calculation. Nobody else had.

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