By Alexis Newton I sat down several times to write this blog post. At home, at a friend’s place, and now in a coffee shop with my buddy Max sitting across from me. I had come up with a compelling title, but still the words seemed to escape me. I was stuck – stuck in...

By Lew Ludwig When I first started this column over a year ago, I naively named it "There and Back Again: A Mathematician’s Tale of AI Exploration," a nod to Tolkien that I thought was a clever pun. I expected to explore generative AI and report back, complete with generating fun, Hobbit-esque images in a Shire-like...