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Machine learning & AI
All-topographic neural networks more closely mimic the human visual system
Deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are designed to partly emulate the functioning and structure of biological neural networks. As a result, in addition ...
Jun 20, 2025
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Computer Sciences
AI image models gain creative edge by amplifying low-frequency features
Recently, text-based image generation models can automatically create high-resolution, high-quality images solely from natural language descriptions. However, when a typical example like the Stable Diffusion model is given ...
Jun 20, 2025
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Bilinear sequence regression model shows why AI excels at learning from word sequences
Researchers at EPFL have created a mathematical model that helps explain how breaking language into sequences makes modern AI-like chatbots so good at understanding and using words. The work is published in the journal Physical ...
Jun 20, 2025
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Vision-language model creates plans for automated inspection of environments
Recent advances in the field of robotics have enabled the automation of various real-world tasks, ranging from the manufacturing or packaging of goods in many industry settings to the precise execution of minimally invasive ...
New test can help driverless cars make 'moral' decisions
Researchers have validated a technique for studying how people make "moral" decisions when driving, with the goal of using the resulting data to train the artificial intelligence used in autonomous vehicles. These moral psychology ...
Jun 19, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
In an era where empathy feels unfamiliar, AI now translates emotions
A research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea) has developed AI technology that helps individuals deeply understand others' emotions by analyzing individual personality traits and values ...
Jun 19, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find
No matter which questions we ask an AI, the model will come up with an answer. To produce this information—regardless of whether the answer is correct or not—the model uses tokens. Tokens are words or parts of words that ...
Jun 19, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Justice at stake as generative AI enters the courtroom
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is making its way into courts despite early stumbles, raising questions about how it will influence the legal system and justice itself.
Jun 19, 2025
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Business
Hyper-realistic AI technology creates avatars from a single photo
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has developed hyper-realistic AI technology that can create an avatar that speaks naturally like a real person using only a single portrait photo.
Jun 19, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Researchers are teaching AI to see more like humans
At Brown University, an innovative new project is revealing that teaching artificial intelligence to perceive things more like people may begin with something as simple as a game. The project invites participants to play ...
Jun 19, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Jamming with AI: Jazz trio plays live with AI-generated sound
A fascinating recent development enabling musicians to improvise live music with AI-generated sound could be the biggest innovation since the advent of sampling, or perhaps even the invention of recorded sound, according ...
Jun 19, 2025
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Robotics
New system reliably controls prosthetic hand movements without relying on biological signals
The loss of a limb following an injury, accident or disease can greatly reduce quality of life, making it harder for people to engage in daily activities. Yet recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities ...
Machine learning & AI
Psycholinguist talks nonsense to ChatGPT to understand how it processes language
A new study appearing in PLOS One by a psycholinguist at the University of Kansas explores how ChatGPT, the popular artificial-intelligence chatbot, responded to nonwords.
Jun 18, 2025
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Robotics
Seeing through a new LENS allows brain-like navigation in robots
QUT robotics researchers have developed a new robot navigation system that mimics the neural processes of the human brain and uses less than 10% of the energy required by traditional systems.
Jun 18, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
AI paves the way toward green cement
The cement industry produces about 8% of global CO₂ emissions—more than the entire aviation sector worldwide. Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed an AI-based model that helps to accelerate the ...
Jun 18, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Study says AI will transform the economy, but gaining an edge will require human passion and ingenuity
In the coming years, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies will doubtlessly proliferate, seeping into most corners of U.S. society and transforming economies around the globe. But don't expect AI to confer a competitive ...
Jun 18, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Grok's 'white genocide' responses show how generative AI can be weaponized
The AI chatbot Grok spent one day in May 2025 spreading debunked conspiracy theories about "white genocide" in South Africa, echoing views publicly voiced by Elon Musk, the founder of its parent company, xAI.
Jun 18, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Lost in the middle: How LLM architecture and training data shape AI's position bias
Research has shown that large language models (LLMs) tend to overemphasize information at the beginning and end of a document or conversation, while neglecting the middle.
Jun 17, 2025
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Hardware
Wafer-scale accelerators could redefine AI
The promise of a new type of computer chip that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence and be more environmentally friendly is explored in a technology review paper published by UC Riverside engineers in the ...
Jun 17, 2025
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Engineering
Robots learn welding skills from humans to address welder shortage
Robots could be the solution to filling the shortage of welders in the U.K., thanks to existing human expertise, a new study from the University of Nottingham has revealed.
Jun 17, 2025
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Business
California's 'No Robo Bosses Act' advances, taking aim at AI in the workplace
One company offers Bay Area employers artificial intelligence that filters potential hires by combing through 10,000 public online sources looking for references to violence or illegal drugs. Another uses the technology to ...
Jun 17, 2025
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Business
OpenAI wins $200 mn contract with US military
The US Department of Defense on Monday awarded OpenAI a $200 million contract to put generative artificial intelligence (AI) to work for the military.
Jun 17, 2025
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Computer Sciences
From code to commands: Prompt training technique helps users speak AI's language
Today's generative artificial intelligence models can create everything from images to computer applications, but the quality of their output depends largely on the prompt a human user provides.
Jun 17, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
AI 'reanimations': Making facsimiles of the dead raises ethical quandaries
Christopher Pelkey was shot and killed in a road range incident in 2021. On May 8, 2025, at the sentencing hearing for his killer, an AI video reconstruction of Pelkey delivered a victim impact statement. The trial judge ...
Jun 17, 2025
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Robotics
AI generates data to help embodied agents ground language to 3D world
A new, densely annotated 3D-text dataset called 3D-GRAND can help train embodied AI, like household robots, to connect language to 3D spaces. The study, led by University of Michigan researchers, was presented at the Computer ...
Jun 16, 2025
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