Neural networks meet space

Artificial intelligence analyzes gravitational lenses 10 million times faster. Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks--a form of artificial intelligence--can accurately analyze the complex distortions in spacetime known as gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods. "Analyses that typically take weeks to months to complete, that require the input of expe...