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What Would the Chatbot Say?
Seeking to explain the unanticipated abilities of large language models.
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The Myth of 'Open Source' AI
A new analysis shows that "open source" AI tools like Llama 2 are still controlled by big tech companies in a number of ways.
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Driverless Cars May Struggle to Spot Children, Dark-Skinned People
Scientists evaluated eight artificial intelligence-based pedestrian detectors used in driverless car research, and found they may have difficulty detecting children...
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Distilling What We Know
Researchers look to cut large GPT models down to size.
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The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here
Ships without crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a U.S. Navy task force is using off-the-shelf robotics and artificial intelligence to prepare for the next...
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Octopus' Complex Cells Are Key to Their High Intelligence
Researchers explored the octopus's neural makeup that defines its learning processes using automated tissue preparation and new machine learning reconstruction...
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An AI Scans Eyes to Spot Parkinson's Years Before Diagnosis
Turns out the windows to the soul can teach us a lot about our own health.
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The AI Power Paradox
Can states learn to govern Artificial Intelligence—before it's too late?
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The Desperate Hunt for the A.I. Boom's Most Indispensable Prize
To power artificial intelligence products, start-ups and investors are taking extraordinary measures to obtain critical chips known as graphics processing units...
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ChatGPT Leans Liberal
Research by scientists at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia suggests OpenAI's ChatGPT has a liberal slant.
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Humanoid Robot Can Pilot an Airplane Better Than a Human
Engineers and researchers are developing a humanoid robot that can fly airplanes without requiring cockpit modifications.
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Google Tests AI Assistant That Offers Life Advice
Google is testing generative artificial intelligence technology programmed to serve as a life coach.
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Complexity Theory's 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge
How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results...
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LLM Tool Finds and Remediates Software Vulnerabilities
Software company Vicarius unveiled vuln_GPT, a generative artificial intelligence tool that automatically identifies and repairs software vulnerabilities, at the...
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ChatGPT Answers More than Half of Software Engineering Questions Incorrectly
ChatGPT answered 52% of 517 Stack Overflow questions incorrectly, and 77% of answers were unnecessarily wordy, according to a study by Purdue University researchers...
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Parenting a Three-Year-Old Robot
An open source AI agent developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Meta AI gives robots manipulation abilities equivalent to those of a three-year-old child...
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Hackers Explore Ways to Misuse AI In Major Security Test
Nearly 2,500 hackers at the DEFCON conference's AI Village spent this past weekend poking and probing some of the most popular large language models for flaws. ...
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Incorporating Human Error into Machine Learning
Scientists are incorporating uncertainty into machine learning systems.
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What Do a Jellyfish, a Cat, a Snake, and an Astronaut Have in Common? Math
A new algorithm describes the various motions that help animals navigate their environments by changing their body shapes.
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