Month March 2024

Credit: Tara Winstead from Pexels Researchers in Denmark are harnessing artificial intelligence and data from millions of people to help anticipate the stages of an individual’s life all the way to the end, hoping to raise awareness of the technology’s…

Quiet-STaR. We visualize the algorithm as applied during training to a single thought. We generate thoughts, in parallel, following all tokens in the text (think). The model produces a mixture of its next-token predictions with and without a thought (talk).…

Our digital world is bigger and more connected than ever. Social media isn’t just a daily habit—with more than 5 billion users globally, it’s woven into the very fabric of our existence. These platforms offer entertainment, connection, information and support,…

Credit: Photos Hobby, Unsplash AI has long since surpassed humans in cognitive matters that were once considered the supreme disciplines of human intelligence like chess or Go. Some even believe it is superior when it comes to human emotional skills…

Many publicly accessible artificial intelligence (AI) assistants lack adequate safeguards to consistently prevent the mass generation of health disinformation across a broad range of topics, warn experts in the BMJ. They call for enhanced regulation, transparency, and routine auditing to…

Medical startup Hippocratic AI is collaborating with California-based tech company NVIDIA to develop empathetic health care agents using artificial intelligence. Described by Popular Science as “nursebots,” the AI-powered agents will be capable of interacting in conversations with patients—perhaps even build…

Credit: AI-generated image Generative artificial intelligence has been hailed for its potential to transform creativity, and especially by lowering the barriers to content creation. While the creative potential of generative AI tools has often been highlighted, the popularity of these…

Various forms of motorsport are passionately followed around the world, and the pinnacle of the sport is Formula 1—a fast-paced battle between drivers and teams with some of the most finely engineered vehicles in the world. Despite the impressive speeds…

Credit: AI-generated image 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…

In this collaged image, 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. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT. Stills courtesy of the researchers From…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) could become a crucial asset to fight the growing global risk of cybercrime, a new study with Charles Darwin University (CDU) has found. The study, led by researchers from CDU’s Energy and Resources Institute alongside Christ Academy…

Inception Attacks: A user thinks they are interacting directly with a VR app launched from the VR home screen, when they are in fact running a simulated VR app inside the attacker’s inception layer. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550 A…

New research, led by academics from Royal Holloway, University of London found AI algorithms generated significant economic and non-economic value for “mumpreneurs.” The research, published in the Information Systems Journal, was led by Dr. Nisreen Ameen and Dr. Vera Hoelscher…

Credit: AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin Aidan Gomez can take some credit for the ‘T’ at the end of ChatGPT. He was part of a group of Google engineers who first introduced a new artificial intelligence model called a transformer. That helped…

Reactor where the catalyst is tested for turning CO2 to methanol. Credit: University of Nottingham Researchers have successfully transformed CO2 into methanol by shining sunlight on single atoms of copper deposited on a light-activated material, a discovery that paves the…

Credit: Sebastian Pfautsch, CC BY If you visit southern Greece or Tunisia, you might notice lots of white rooftops and white buildings to reflect the intense heat and keep residents cooler. It’s very different in Australia. New housing estates in…

Radar sensor held up next to 10c coin to give size comparison. Credit: University of Waterloo Inspired by the medical bay of the USS Enterprise from “Star Trek,” a research team from the University of Waterloo uses radar technology to…

EU parliamentary elections are taking place in the bloc’s 27 member states on June 6-9. The EU called on Facebook, TikTok and other tech titans on Tuesday to crack down on deepfakes and other AI-generated content by using clear labels…

When Aleksandr Zhadan used ChatGPT to talk to over 5,000 women on Tinder, it was a sign of things to come. As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated and easily available, online dating is facing an onslaught of AI-powered fraud. The…

Humans are very good at spotting patterns, or repeating features people can recognize. For instance, ancient Polynesians navigated across the Pacific by recognizing many patterns, from the stars’ constellations to more subtle ones such as the directions and sizes of…

The Trajekt Arc pitching machine is demonstrated during the Major League Baseball winter meetings Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Trajekt uses data to mimic the way balls spin and break from big league pitchers and has for the…

Credit: The European Hyperloop Center Europe’s longest tunnel for testing hyperloop technology opens Wednesday in the Netherlands, with operators hoping passengers could one day be whisked from Amsterdam to Barcelona in a couple of hours. On a disused railway center…

Site Zero can sort 12 different types of plastic waste. Discarded crisp bags, ketchup bottles and Tupperware containers speed along conveyer belts at a massive high-tech sorting plant dubbed “Site Zero”, which Sweden hopes will revolutionize its plastic recycling. Infrared…

The Umwelt interface. A) The data, visual, and audio tabs of the editor. B) The editor’s fields tab, where users specify field definitions and encodings. C) The viewer, where users analyze data with interactive multimodal data representations. Credit: arXiv (2024).…

The system automatically adjusted the voltage and the rate at which salt water flowed through it dependent on variable levels of sunshine. By matching the workings of the machine to the available water power, the team could develop a system…

Credit: JACS Au (2024). DOI: 10.1021 MIT chemical engineers have devised an efficient way to convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, a chemical precursor that can be used to generate useful compounds such as ethanol and other fuels. If scaled…

A new study has shown that people modify their behavior to accommodate autonomous delivery robots, and it is this invisible “human work” that allows robots to run smoothly on the streets and needs to be considered when designing their routes.…

Computing giant Apple recently announced it was taking steps to protect the more than 1 billion people worldwide who use its iMessage app—from a threat that doesn’t yet exist. Hackers today might be able to steal your password, but they…

Google and the XPrize Foundation have launched a competition worth US$5 million (£4 million) to develop real-world applications for quantum computers that benefit society—by speeding up progress on one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, for example. The principles of…

Credit: National Academies If you bought a phone in the past few years, chances are you barely ever type your password anymore: your face unlocks not only your phone, but also your social media, your Duke MyChart portal and even…

Glimpses of the future often emerge at the Game Developers Conference. It’s where indie games generate a buzz or the kernel of a big idea is planted. This year, artificial intelligence took center stage as Nvidia showed off jaw-dropping capabilities…

Yuhang Hu of Creative Machines Lab face-to-face with Emo. Credit: Creative Machines Lab/Columbia Engineering 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…

Rising demand for LED lighting, magnets for EV motors and wind turbine generators were cited as reasons why certain rare earth materials are deemed critical in the short-term. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) increased from…

SnSO4 is used as a tin precursor for the tin oxide (SnO2) deposited as the electron transport layer of FPSCs. A new CBD manufacturing method allows more control over SnO2 growth, improving the overall power conversion efficiency of the solar…

Children and teenagers living with overweight or obesity are more likely to have high blood pressure as adults (aged 50–64 years), suggesting the processes behind the condition could begin as early as childhood, suggests new research being presented at this…

Lower-income communities across the United States have long been much slower to adopt solar power than their affluent neighbors, even when local and federal agencies offer tax breaks and other financial incentives. But, commercial and industrial rooftops, such as those…

A population-wide observational study to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2024) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April) shows an association between tuberculosis (TB) and cancer, with those with current or previous TB…

“Concrete safeguards” for government use of artificial intelligence were announced by the White House Thursday, as it vowed they would serve as a model for “global action.” “When government agencies use AI tools, we will now require them to verify…

The process principle of elliptical vibration chiseling (EV-chiseling), elliptical vibration cutting (EV-cutting), and conventional cutting methods. The typical machining SEM figures represent the comparison between EV-chiseling and EV-cutting, and the depth of cut is 10 ?m. Credit: Zhiwei Li, Jianfu…

PG&E is pushing forward with quests to help bolster Silicon Valley’s economy and innovation future, including major South Bay and East Bay electricity projects, utility officials have said. Executives with PG&E appeared at a power breakfast in downtown San Jose…