How do you stop robotic traffic jams? Researchers found that adding "noise" or randomness to robot paths optimizes swarm efficiency, proving that swarms don't need central AI to avoid gridlock.

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Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

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Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...