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Why the Next AI Breakthrough May Come from Physics with Max Welling - #774

aired Aug 26, 2026 · 57.0m
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Summary

So far, most of the biggest breakthroughs in AI have come from training larger models on even more data. But that's not the only way forward.

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of these, it's, actually, including: But that's not the only way forward.

Key takeaways
  1. 01So far, most of the biggest breakthroughs in AI have come from training larger models on even more data
  2. 02Waves are actually seen in the brain now because we've gone from single electrode measurements to maybe hundreds or thousands of electrode measurements
  3. 03So in chemistry and material science, people train neural network models to predict the forces on atoms because people want to evolve atoms forward in time in order to compute thei
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