2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Computer Science

The year's biggest breakthroughs in computer science included a new understanding of what’s going on in large language models (LLMs) and a breakthrough in computing Hamiltonians — models that represent complex quantum systems. Read more at Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ye...

0:04 - Can Large Language Models Understand?
Are chatbots "stochastic parrots"? A new evaluation called Skill Mix suggests that the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.
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6:14 - Hamiltonian Learning Algorithm
After years of false starts, a team of computer scientists has found a way to efficiently deduce the Hamiltonian of a quantum system at any constant temperature.
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