Scientists map out data from a once-in-a-lifetime explosion. [...]
Wed, Mar 27, 2024
Source Nanowerk
Physicists are proposing a new way to look for dark matter using quantum devices, which might be naturally tuned to detect what researchers call thermalized dark matter. [...]
Wed, Mar 27, 2024
Source Nanowerk
Engineers designed an 'architected' reef that can mimic the wave-buffering effects of natural reefs while providing pockets for marine life. The sustainable and cost-saving structure could dissipate more than 95 percent of incoming wave energy using a small fraction of the material normally needed. [...]
Wed, Mar 27, 2024
Source Science Daily
Astronomers have found that a previously quiet black hole, which sits at the center of a galaxy about 800 million light years away, has suddenly erupted, giving off plumes of gas every 8.5 days before settling back to its normal, quiet state. [...]
Wed, Mar 27, 2024
Source Science Daily
What would you do if you walked up to a robot with a human-like head and it smiled at you first? You'd likely smile back and perhaps feel the two of you were genuinely interacting. But how does a robot know how to do this? Or a better question, how [...]
Wed, Mar 27, 2024
Source Science Daily – Cybernetics
This shows a lit up network.
Neural networks, regardless of their complexity or training method, follow a surprisingly uniform path from ignorance to expertise in image classification tasks. Researchers found that neural networks classify images by identifying the same low-dimensional features, such as ears or eyes, debunking the assumption that network learning methods are vastly different. [...]
Wed, Mar 27, 2024
Source Neuroscience News – Deep Learning
Two pie charts showing the countries of origin of AI researchers in 2019 and 2022.
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. In 2019, MIT Technology Review covered a report that shined a light on how fast China’s AI talent pool was growing. Its main finding was pretty interesting: the [...]
Wed, Mar 27, 2024
Source Technology Review – AI
Astronomers have concluded that an obscure class of galaxies known as Compact Symmetric Objects, or CSOs, are not young as previously thought but rather lead relatively short lives. [...]
Tue, Mar 26, 2024
Source Science Daily
Researchers identify transformative effects of electronic health record (EHR) optimization on departmental productivity. [...]
Tue, Mar 26, 2024
Source Science Daily
Crafting a good-tasting beer is a difficult task. Big breweries select hundreds of trained tasters from among their employees to test their new products. But running such sensory tasting panels is expensive, and perceptions of what tastes good can be highly subjective.   What if artificial intelligence could help lighten the load? [...]
Tue, Mar 26, 2024
Source Technology Review – AI
Researchers designed and manufactured a virus-killing surface that could help control disease spread in hospitals, labs and other high-risk environments. The surface made of silicon is covered in tiny nanospikes that skewer viruses on contact. [...]
Tue, Mar 26, 2024
Source Nanowerk
To assess a community’s risk of extreme weather, policymakers rely first on global climate models that can be run decades, and even centuries, forward in time, but only at a coarse resolution. These models might be used to gauge, for instance, future climate conditions for the northeastern U.S., but not [...]
Tue, Mar 26, 2024
Source MIT – AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. The UK is home to AI powerhouse Google DeepMind, a slew of exciting AI startups, and some of the world’s best universities. It’s also where I live, [...]
Tue, Mar 26, 2024
Source Technology Review – AI
Researchers have developed innovative mechanical transistors that combine temperature-responsive materials and switchable structures, enabling complex logic operations and memory storage without electricity, opening up new possibilities for computing and environmental interaction. [...]
Tue, Mar 26, 2024
Source Nanowerk
Engineers aim to give robots a bit of common sense when faced with situations that push them off their trained path, so they can self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores. The team's method connects robot motion data with the common sense knowledge of large language models, or [...]
Mon, Mar 25, 2024
Source Science Daily – Cybernetics
Suddenly, “open source” is the latest buzzword in AI circles. Meta has pledged to create open-source artificial general intelligence. And Elon Musk is suing OpenAI over its lack of open-source AI models. Meanwhile, a growing number of tech leaders and companies are setting themselves up as open-source champions.  But there’s a fundamental [...]
Mon, Mar 25, 2024
Source Technology Review – AI
A robotic hand tries to scoop up red marbles and put them into another bowl while a researcher’s hand frequently disrupts it. The robot eventually succeeds.
From wiping up spills to serving up food, robots are being taught to carry out increasingly complicated household tasks. Many such home-bot trainees are learning through imitation; they are programmed to copy the motions that a human physically guides them through. It turns out that robots are excellent mimics. But unless [...]
Mon, Mar 25, 2024
Source MIT – AI
Large language models, such as those that power popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, are incredibly complex. Even though these models are being used as tools in many areas, such as customer support, code generation, and language translation, scientists still don’t fully grasp how they work. In an effort to better [...]
Mon, Mar 25, 2024
Source MIT – AI
This shows a brain and computer monitor.
Researchers developed an AI algorithm capable of predicting mouse movement with a 95% accuracy by analyzing whole-cortex functional imaging data, potentially revolutionizing brain-machine interface technology. The team's end-to-end deep learning method requires no data preprocessing and can make accurate predictions based on just 0.17 seconds of imaging data. [...]
Thu, Mar 21, 2024
Source Neuroscience News – Deep Learning
In our current age of artificial intelligence, computers can generate their own “art” by way of diffusion models, iteratively adding structure to a noisy initial state until a clear image or video emerges. Diffusion models have suddenly grabbed a seat at everyone’s table: Enter a few words and experience instantaneous, [...]
Thu, Mar 21, 2024
Source MIT – AI
Artificial intelligence can spot COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images much like facial recognition software can spot a face in a crowd, new research shows. The findings boost AI-driven medical diagnostics and bring health care professionals closer to being able to quickly diagnose patients with COVID-19 and other pulmonary diseases with [...]
Wed, Mar 20, 2024
Source Science Daily – Cybernetics
This shows a woman talking.
Machine learning (ML) models can accurately identify emotions from brief audio clips, achieving a level of accuracy comparable to humans. By analyzing nonsensical sentences to remove the influence of language and content, the study found that deep neural networks (DNNs) and a hybrid model (C-DNN) were particularly effective in recognizing [...]
Wed, Mar 20, 2024
Source Neuroscience News – Deep Learning
If it walks like a particle, and talks like a particle... it may still not be a particle. A topological soliton is a special type of wave or dislocation which behaves like a particle: it can move around but cannot spread out and disappear like you would expect from, say, [...]
Wed, Mar 20, 2024
Source Science Daily – Cybernetics
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Researchers made a significant leap in artificial intelligence by developing an AI capable of learning new tasks from verbal or written instructions and then verbally describing these tasks to another AI, enabling it to perform the same tasks. This development highlights a unique human-like ability in AI for the first [...]
Tue, Mar 19, 2024
Source Neuroscience News – Deep Learning