The maker of Claude LLMs revises its safety guidelines to manage escalating risks. [...]
Wed, Oct 16, 2024
Source ZDNet – Big Data
The Petcube GPS Tracker is a stellar way to watch your dog's location in real time, with the bonus of fitness tracking. [...]
Wed, Oct 16, 2024
Source ZDNet – Big Data
In the current AI zeitgeist, sequence models have skyrocketed in popularity for their ability to analyze data and predict what to do next. For instance, you’ve likely used next-token prediction models like ChatGPT, which anticipate each word (token) in a sequence to form answers to users’ queries. There are also [...]
Wed, Oct 16, 2024
Source MIT – AI
Researchers have developed a new method using the Allen Telescope Array to search for interplanetary radio communication in the TRAPPIST-1 star system. [...]
Wed, Oct 16, 2024
Source Science Daily
Scientists discovered that they could use light to detect the spin state in a class of materials called perovskites. [...]
Wed, Oct 16, 2024
Source Nanowerk
New technique allows greater integration of synthetic diamonds, improving how both quantum and conventional electronics are built. [...]
Wed, Oct 16, 2024
Source Nanowerk
Most doctors go into medicine because they want to help patients. But today’s health care system requires that doctors spend hours each day on other work — searching through electronic health records (EHRs), writing documentation, coding and billing, prior authorization, and utilization management — often surpassing the time they spend caring for [...]
Wed, Oct 16, 2024
Source MIT – AI
Engineers have developed a new system for full-body motion capture -- and it doesn't require specialized rooms, expensive equipment, bulky cameras or an array of sensors. Instead, it requires only a smartphone, smartwatch or earbuds. [...]
Tue, Oct 15, 2024
Source Science Daily
Instagram's new 'profile card' features a QR code that makes it easier to connect and network. [...]
Tue, Oct 15, 2024
Source ZDNet – Big Data
Roku's new integration features include a Camera Carousel, Smart Home Web View, and more notifications coming to your TV. [...]
Tue, Oct 15, 2024
Source ZDNet – Big Data
Researchers explore how the domesticated flightless silkworm moth (Bombyx mori), a prominent insect model in olfactory research, uses wing flapping to manipulate airflow, enhancing their ability to detect distant pheromones. These findings highlight how moths guide pheromones to their odor sensors in antennae, and suggest potential applications for designing advanced [...]
Tue, Oct 15, 2024
Source Science Daily
Researchers have unveiled a vision system inspired by feline eyes to enhance object detection in various lighting conditions. Featuring a unique shape and reflective surface, the system reduces glare in bright environments and boosts sensitivity in low-light scenarios. By filtering unnecessary details, this technology significantly improves the performance of single-lens [...]
Tue, Oct 15, 2024
Source Science Daily – Cybernetics
Does ChatGPT treat you the same whether you’re a Laurie, Luke, or Lashonda? Almost, but not quite. OpenAI has analyzed millions of conversations with its hit chatbot and found that ChatGPT will produce a harmful gender or racial stereotype based on a user’s name in around one in 1000 responses [...]
Tue, Oct 15, 2024
Source Technology Review – AI
Researchers have developed bacteria hybrid LEDs that reduce light scattering and enable fluorescent protein recycling, paving the way for cost-effective, sustainable lighting technologies. [...]
Tue, Oct 15, 2024
Source Nanowerk
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A new study reveals a vulnerability in AI image recognition systems due to their exclusion of the alpha channel, which controls image transparency. Researchers developed "AlphaDog," an attack method that manipulates transparency in images, allowing hackers to distort visuals like road signs or medical scans in ways undetectable by AI. [...]
Tue, Oct 15, 2024
Source Neuroscience News – Deep Learning
This shows brain scans.
Researchers have developed a machine learning model that upgrades 3T MRI images to mimic the higher-resolution 7T MRI, providing enhanced detail for detecting brain abnormalities. The synthetic 7T images reveal finer features, such as white matter lesions and subcortical microbleeds, which are often difficult to see with standard MRI systems. [...]
Tue, Oct 15, 2024
Source Neuroscience News – Deep Learning
It feels as though AI is moving a million miles a minute. Every week, it seems, there are product launches, fresh features and other innovations, and new concerns over ethics and privacy. It’s a lot to keep up with. Maybe you wish someone would just take a step back and [...]
Tue, Oct 15, 2024
Source Technology Review – AI
New halide perovskites show promise as efficient solar cell materials, potentially replacing silicon. Recent research advances understanding of their function, aiding green transition. [...]
Tue, Oct 15, 2024
Source Nanowerk
NASA's Europa Clipper has embarked on its long voyage to Jupiter, where it will investigate Europa, a moon with an enormous subsurface ocean that may have conditions to support life. The largest spacecraft NASA ever built for a mission headed to another planet, Europa Clipper also is the first NASA [...]
Mon, Oct 14, 2024
Source Science Daily
Organizations are starting the heavy lifting to get real business value from generative AI. As Arnab Chakraborty, chief responsible AI officer at Accenture, puts it, “2023 was the year when clients were amazed with generative AI and the possibilities. In 2024, we are starting to see scaled implementations of responsible [...]
Mon, Oct 14, 2024
Source Technology Review – AI
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Emotion recognition extends far beyond facial expressions, involving a rich interplay of context, physical attributes, and background knowledge. Researchers propose that recognizing emotion is part of forming an overall impression of a person, shaped by cues like clothing, perceived social roles, and personal history. For instance, a facial expression of [...]
Fri, Oct 11, 2024
Source Neuroscience News – Deep Learning
A new computer simulation of how our brains develop and grow neurons has been built. Along with improving our understanding of how the brain works, researchers hope that the models will contribute to neurodegenerative disease research and, someday, stem cell research that helps regenerate brain tissue. [...]
Thu, Oct 10, 2024
Source Science Daily – Cybernetics
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Researchers tested artificial intelligence’s ability to solve abstract visual puzzles similar to human IQ tests, revealing gaps in AI’s reasoning skills. Open-source AI models struggled, while closed-source models like GPT-4V performed better, but far from perfectly. [...]
Thu, Oct 10, 2024
Source Neuroscience News – Deep Learning
Scientists have developed and successfully tested a new chatbot based on artificial intelligence: 'UroBot' was able to answer questions from the urology specialist examination with a high degree of accuracy, surpassing both other language models and the accuracy of experienced urologists. The model justifies its answers in detail based on [...]
Wed, Oct 09, 2024
Source Science Daily – Cybernetics
In a second Nobel win for AI, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded half the 2024 prize in chemistry to Demis Hassabis, the cofounder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and John M. Jumper, a director at the same company, for their work on using artificial intelligence to predict [...]
Wed, Oct 09, 2024
Source Technology Review – AI
A recent award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) brings together researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and Lehigh University (Lehigh) under the Multiobjective Engineering and Testing of Alloy Structures (METALS) program. The team will research novel design tools for the simultaneous [...]
Tue, Oct 08, 2024
Source MIT – AI
The German philosopher Fredrich Nietzsche once said that “invisible threads are the strongest ties.” One could think of “invisible threads” as tying together related objects, like the homes on a delivery driver’s route, or more nebulous entities, such as transactions in a financial network or users in a social network.Computer [...]
Fri, Oct 04, 2024
Source MIT – AI
Miniature robots on the millimeter scale often lack the strength to transport instruments for endoscopic microsurgery through the body. Scientists are now combining several millimeter-sized TrainBots into one unit and equipping them with improved 'feet'. For the first time, the team was able to perform an electric surgical procedure on [...]
Tue, Oct 01, 2024
Source Science Daily – Cybernetics