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May 17, 2024

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Large Language Models Can't Effectively Recognize Users' Motivation, but Can Support Behavior Change for Those Ready to Act

May 16, 2024 — Large language model-based chatbots can't effectively recognize users' motivation when they are hesitant about making healthy behavior changes, but they can support those who are committed to take ...

Scientists Use Generative AI to Answer Complex Questions in Physics

May 16, 2024 — Researchers used generative AI to develop a physics-informed technique to classify phase transitions in materials or physical systems that is much more efficient than existing machine-learning ...

Researchers Wrestle With Accuracy of AI Technology Used to Create New Drug Candidates

May 16, 2024 — Researchers have determined that a protein prediction technology can yield accurate results in the hunt to efficiently find the best possible drug candidates for many ...

Wavefunction Matching for Solving Quantum Many-Body Problems

May 15, 2024 — Strongly interacting systems play an important role in quantum physics and quantum chemistry. Stochastic methods such as Monte Carlo simulations are a proven method for investigating such systems. However, these methods reach their limits when ...

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Century of Statistical Ecology Reviewed

May 14, 2024 — A special review examines highly-cited papers in statistical ecology. The review, which covers a century of research, details how models and concepts have evolved alongside increasing computational ...

New Work Extends the Thermodynamic Theory of Computation

May 13, 2024 — Physicists and computer scientists have recently expanded the modern theory of the thermodynamics of computation. By combining approaches from statistical physics and computer science, the ...

New Machine Learning Algorithm Promises Advances in Computing

May 9, 2024 — Systems controlled by next-generation computing algorithms could give rise to better and more efficient machine learning products, a new study ...

AI Deciphers New Gene Regulatory Code in Plants and Makes Accurate Predictions for Newly Sequenced Genomes

Apr. 26, 2024 — Elucidating the relationship between the sequences of non-coding regulatory elements and their target genes is key to understanding gene regulation ...

AI Advancements Make the Leap Into 3D Pathology Possible

May 9, 2024 — Researchers present Tripath: new, deep learning models that can use 3D pathology datasets to make clinical outcome predictions. The research team imaged curated prostate cancer specimens, using two ...

Why Getting in Touch With Our 'Gerbil Brain' Could Help Machines Listen Better

May 7, 2024 — Researchers have debunked a 75-year-old theory about how humans determine where sounds are coming from, and it could unlock the secret to creating a ...

Emergency Department Packed to the Gills? Someday, AI May Help

May 7, 2024 — Emergency departments nationwide are overcrowded and overtaxed, but a new study suggests artificial intelligence (AI) could one day help prioritize which patients need treatment most ...

Researchers Use Foundation Models to Discover New Cancer Imaging Biomarkers

May 7, 2024 — Researchers have harnessed the technology behind foundation models, which power tools like ChatGPT, to discover new cancer imaging biomarkers that could transform how patterns are identified from ...

New Computer Algorithm Supercharges Climate Models and Could Lead to Better Predictions of Future Climate Change

May 1, 2024 — A study describes a new computer algorithm which can be applied to Earth System Models to drastically reduce the time needed to prepare these in ...

Improved AI Process Could Better Predict Water Supplies

May 1, 2024 — A new computer model uses a better artificial intelligence process to measure snow and water availability more accurately across vast distances in the West, information that could someday be used to ...

Toxic Chemicals Can Be Detected With New AI Method

May 2, 2024 — Researchers have developed an AI method that improves the identification of toxic chemicals -- based solely on knowledge of the molecular structure. The method can contribute to better control and ...

From Disorder to Order: Flocking Birds and 'Spinning' Particles

Apr. 26, 2024 — Researchers have demonstrated that ferromagnetism, an ordered state of atoms, can be induced by increasing particle motility and that repulsive forces between atoms are sufficient to maintain it. The ...

Artificial Intelligence Can Develop Treatments to Prevent 'Superbugs'

Apr. 24, 2024 — Cleveland Clinic researchers developed an artficial intelligence (AI) model that can determine the best combination and timeline to use when prescribing drugs to treat a bacterial infection, based ...

AI Tool Creates 'Synthetic' Images of Cells for Enhanced Microscopy Analysis

Apr. 22, 2024 — Researchers have developed a method to use an image generation AI model to create realistic images of single cells, which are then used as 'synthetic data' to train an AI model to better ...

New Sensing Checks for 3D Printed Products Could Overhaul Manufacturing Sector

Apr. 22, 2024 — A sensing technology that can assess the quality of components in fields such as aerospace could transform UK ...

Predicting Cardiac Arrhythmia 30 Minutes Before It Happens

Apr. 22, 2024 — Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia worldwide with around 59 million people concerned in 2019. This irregular heartbeat is associated with increased risks of heart failure, ...

AI Weather Forecasts Captured Ciaran's Destructive Path

Apr. 22, 2024 — The study highlights the rapid progress and transformative potential of AI in weather ...

Teaching a Computer to Type Like a Human

Apr. 18, 2024 — A new typing model simulates the typing process instead of just predicting ...

When Thoughts Flow in One Direction

Apr. 18, 2024 — Contrary to previous assumptions, nerve cells in the human neocortex are wired differently than in mice. The study found that human neurons communicate in one direction, while in mice, signals tend ...

A Faster, Better Way to Prevent an AI Chatbot from Giving Toxic Responses

Apr. 10, 2024 — A new technique can more effectively perform a safety check on an AI chatbot. Researchers enabled their model to prompt a chatbot to generate toxic responses, which are used to prevent the chatbot ...

Novel Robust-Optimal Controllers Based on Fuzzy Descriptor System

Apr. 8, 2024 — The Takagi--Sugeno (T--S) fuzzy descriptor system offers a promising avenue for controlling non-linear systems but lacks optimal control strategies. Moreover, while robust control methods have been ...

Can Language Models Read the Genome? This One Decoded mRNA to Make Better Vaccines

Apr. 5, 2024 — Researchers developed a foundational language model to decode mRNA sequences and optimize those sequences for vaccine development. The tool shows broader promise as a means for studying molecular ...

Computer Scientists Show the Way: AI Models Need Not Be SO Power Hungry

Apr. 3, 2024 — The development of AI models is an overlooked climate culprit. Computer scientists have created a recipe book for designing AI models that use much less energy without compromising performance. They ...

The Math Problem That Took Nearly a Century to Solve: Secret to Ramsey Numbers

Apr. 2, 2024 — Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for ...

Physics-Based Predictive Tool Will Speed Up Battery and Superconductor Research

Apr. 1, 2024 — Researchers have developed physics-based guidelines that will benefit host-guest intercalated materials research. By using only two guest properties and eight host-derived descriptors, they correctly ...

Artificial Intelligence Boosts Super-Resolution Microscopy

Mar. 28, 2024 — Generative artificial intelligence (AI) might be best known from text or image-creating applications like ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion. But its usefulness beyond that is being shown in more and more ...

Rectifying AI's Usage in the Quest for Thermoelectric Materials

Mar. 25, 2024 — AI is revolutionizing the way researchers seek to identify new materials, but it still has some shortcomings. Now, a team of researchers has navigated AI's pitfalls to identify a thermoelectric ...

Physicists Develop Modeling Software to Diagnose Serious Diseases

Mar. 22, 2024 — Researchers have recently published FreeDTS -- a shared software package designed to model and study biological membranes at the mesoscale -- the scale 'in between' the larger macro level ...

Powerful New AI Can Predict People's Attitudes to Vaccines

Mar. 20, 2024 — A powerful new tool in artificial intelligence is able to predict whether someone is willing to be vaccinated against ...

New Technique Helps AI Tell When Humans Are Lying

Mar. 18, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new training tool to help artificial intelligence (AI) programs better account for the fact that humans don't always tell the truth when providing personal ...