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July 26, 2024

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Researchers Develop State-of-the-Art Device to Make Artificial Intelligence More Energy Efficient

July 26, 2024 — Engineering researchers have demonstrated a state-of-the-art hardware device that could reduce energy consumption for artificial intelligent (AI) computing applications by a factor of at least ...

Raindrops Grow With Turbulence in Clouds

July 25, 2024 — Tackling a long-time mystery, scientists have found that the turbulent movements of air in clouds play a key role in the growth of water droplets and the initiation of rain. The research can improve computer model simulations of weather and climate ...

Large Language Models Don't Behave Like People, Even Though We May Expect Them to

July 23, 2024 — People generalize to form beliefs about a large language model's performance based on what they've seen from past interactions. When an LLM is misaligned with a person's beliefs, even an extremely ...

Scientists Use AI to Predict a Wildfire's Next Move

July 22, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new model that combines generative AI and satellite data to accurately forecast wildfire ...

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Are AI-Chatbots Suitable for Hospitals?

July 22, 2024 — Large language models may pass medical exams with flying colors but using them for diagnoses would currently be grossly negligent. Medical chatbots make hasty diagnoses, do not adhere to guidelines, ...

A New Neural Network Makes Decisions Like a Human Would

July 15, 2024 — Researchers are training neural networks to make decisions more like humans would. This science of human decision-making is only just being applied to machine learning, but developing a neural ...

Model of Extending Radio Wave Coverage Using Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

July 11, 2024 — Researchers developed a model showing the ability of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces to redirect the propagation of radio waves, which could ...

When to Trust an AI Model

July 12, 2024 — A new technique enables huge machine-learning models to efficiently generate more accurate quantifications of their uncertainty about certain predictions. This could help practitioners determine ...

Researchers Introduce Generative AI for Databases

July 9, 2024 — Researchers have developed an easy-to-use tool that enables someone to perform complicated statistical analyses on tabular data using just a few keystrokes. Their method combines probabilistic AI ...

Machine Learning Could Aid Efforts to Answer Long-Standing Astrophysical Questions

July 3, 2024 — Physicists have developed a computer program incorporating machine learning that could help identify blobs of plasma in outer space known as ...

Can A.I. Tell You If You Have Osteoporosis? Newly Developed Deep Learning Model Shows Promise

June 28, 2024 — Researchers have developed a novel deep learning algorithm that outperformed existing computer-based osteoporosis risk prediction methods, ...

New Deep-Learning Model Outperforms Google AI System in Predicting Peptide Structures

June 27, 2024 — Researchers have developed a deep-learning model, called PepFlow, that can predict all possible shapes of peptides -- chains of amino acids that are ...

Prying Open the AI Black Box

June 21, 2024 — Meet SQUID, a new computational tool. Compared with other genomic AI models, SQUID is more consistent, reduces background noise, and can yield better predictions regarding critical mutations. The new ...

Simplicity Versus Adaptability: Understanding the Balance Between Habitual and Goal-Directed Behaviors

June 17, 2024 — Scientists have proposed a new AI method in which systems of habitual and goal-directed behaviors learn to help each other. Through computer ...

Can Consciousness Exist in a Computer Simulation?

July 19, 2024 — A new essay explores which conditions must be met for consciousness to exist. At least one of them can't be found in a ...

Researchers Use Large Language Models to Help Robots Navigate

June 14, 2024 — A technique can plan a trajectory for a robot using only language-based inputs. While it can't outperform vision-based approaches, it could be useful in settings that lack visual data to use for ...

Quantum Data Assimilation: A Quantum Leap in Weather Prediction

June 13, 2024 — Data assimilation is an important mathematical discipline in earth sciences, particularly in numerical weather prediction (NWP). However, conventional data assimilation methods require significant ...

Digital Babies Created to Improve Infant Healthcare

June 7, 2024 — Researchers have created digital babies to better understand infants' health in their critical first 180 days of life. The team created 360 advanced computer models that simulate the unique ...

Seeking Social Proximity Improves Flight Routes Among Pigeons

June 6, 2024 — A new study looked at the social influences on pigeon flight routes. Comparing the flight patterns of pairs of pigeons to a computer model, the researcher found that flight paths are improved as ...

Using AI to Decode Dog Vocalizations

June 4, 2024 — Have you ever wished you could understand what your dog is trying to say to you? Researchers are exploring the possibilities of AI, developing tools that can identify whether a dog's bark ...

New Model Allows a Computer to Understand Human Emotions

June 4, 2024 — Researchers have developed a model that enables computers to interpret and understand human emotions, utilizing principles of mathematical psychology. In the future, the model can help the computer ...

A Technique for More Effective Multipurpose Robots

June 3, 2024 — MIT researchers developed a technique to combine robotics training data across domains, modalities, and tasks using generative AI models. They create a combined strategy from several different ...

Children's Visual Experience May Hold Key to Better Computer Vision Training

May 31, 2024 — A novel, human-inspired approach to training artificial intelligence (AI) systems to identify objects and navigate their surroundings could set the stage for the development of more advanced AI ...

Researchers Apply Quantum Computing Methods to Protein Structure Prediction

May 29, 2024 — Researchers recently published findings that could lay the groundwork for applying quantum computing methods to protein structure ...

Theoretical Quantum Speedup With the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

May 29, 2024 — Researchers demonstrated a quantum algorithmic speedup with the quantum approximate optimization algorithm, laying the groundwork for advancements in telecommunications, financial modeling, materials ...

Tracking Animals Without Markers in the Wild

May 28, 2024 — Researchers developed a computer vision framework for posture estimation and identity tracking which they can use in indoor environments as well as in the wild. They have thus taken an important step ...

Batteries: Modeling Tomorrow's Materials Today

May 21, 2024 — Which factors determine how quickly a battery can be charged? Microstructural models have helped researchers discover and investigate new electrode materials. When sodium-nickel-manganese oxide is ...

How AI Helps Programming a Quantum Computer

May 21, 2024 — Researchers have unveiled a novel method to prepare quantum operations on a given quantum computer, using a machine learning generative model to find the appropriate sequence of quantum gates to ...

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 ...

Using Artificial Intelligence to Speed Up and Improve the Most Computationally-Intensive Aspects of Plasma Physics in Fusion

May 14, 2024 — Researchers are using artificial intelligence to perfect the design of the vessels surrounding the super-hot plasma, optimize heating methods and maintain stable control of the reaction for ...

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 order to make accurate predictions of future climate ...

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 ...

Researchers Develop a New Way to Instruct Dance in Virtual Reality

Apr. 29, 2024 — Virtual reality dance made easier with crowd wave technique. Open source code can be downloaded for Quest 2 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 ...