{"id":158340,"date":"2023-02-17T12:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/engineers-finally-peeked-inside-a-deep-neural-network"},"modified":"2023-02-17T12:25:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:25:31","slug":"engineers-finally-peeked-inside-a-deep-neural-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/engineers-finally-peeked-inside-a-deep-neural-network","title":{"rendered":"Engineers finally peeked inside a deep neural network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-finally-peeked-inside-a-deep-neural-network2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Say you have a cutting-edge gadget that can crack any safe in the world\u2014but you haven\u2019t got a clue how it works. What do you do? You could take a much older safe-cracking tool\u2014a trusty crowbar, perhaps. You could use that lever to pry open your gadget, peek at its innards, and try to reverse-engineer it. As it happens, that\u2019s what scientists have just done with mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have examined a deep neural network\u2014one type of artificial intelligence, a type that\u2019s notoriously enigmatic on the inside\u2014with a well-worn type of mathematical analysis that physicists and engineers have used for decades. The researchers <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/pnasnexus\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/pnasnexus\/pgad015\/6998042?login=false\">published<\/a> their results in the journal <em>PNAS Nexus <\/em>on January 23. Their results hint their AI is doing many of the same calculations that humans have long done themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The paper\u2019s authors typically use deep neural networks to predict extreme weather events or for other climate applications. While better local forecasts can help people schedule their park dates, predicting the wind and the clouds can also help renewable energy operators plan what to put into the grid in the coming hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say you have a cutting-edge gadget that can crack any safe in the world\u2014but you haven\u2019t got a clue how it works. What do you do? You could take a much older safe-cracking tool\u2014a trusty crowbar, perhaps. You could use that lever to pry open your gadget, peek at its innards, and try to reverse-engineer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2229,219,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}