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Robotics
Synchronized movement between robots and humans builds trust, study finds
Trust between humans and robots is improved when the movement between both is harmonized, researchers have discovered.
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Computer Sciences
Leaner large language models could enable efficient local use on phones and laptops
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly automating tasks like translation, text classification and customer service. But tapping into an LLM's power typically requires users to send their requests to a centralized server—a ...
Nov 18, 2024
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World heading toward a 'data doomsday' as demand outstrips energy supply, researchers warn
New research by Loughborough University warns that global renewable electricity supply will be unable to meet the surging demand from digital data by 2025.
Nov 14, 2024
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Algorithm enhances electronic correlation energy calculations for a wide range of fields
A first-of-its-kind algorithm developed at Georgia Tech is helping scientists study interactions between electrons. This innovation in modeling technology can lead to discoveries in physics, chemistry, materials science, ...
Nov 13, 2024
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Solving complex problems faster: Innovations in Ising machine technology
Computers are essential for solving complex problems in fields such as scheduling, logistics, and route planning, but traditional computers struggle with large-scale combinatorial optimization, as they can't efficiently process ...
Nov 13, 2024
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Computer Sciences
AI is universally bad at knowing when to chime in during a conversation: Researchers discover some of the root causes
When you have a conversation today, notice the natural points when the exchange leaves open the opportunity for the other person to chime in. If their timing is off, they might be taken as overly aggressive, too timid, or ...
Nov 11, 2024
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Software
New open-source Python package developed for efficient multi-source evidence fusion
Researchers from Peking University have developed ERTool, an open-source Python package designed to simplify the implementation of the Evidential Reasoning (ER) approach for multi-source evidence fusion. This tool addresses ...
Nov 11, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Quantum encoding methods could slash circuit complexity in machine learning
A recent study by researchers from CSIRO and the University of Melbourne has made progress in quantum machine learning, a field aimed at achieving quantum advantage to outperform classical machine learning.
Nov 8, 2024
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Computer Sciences
How close are we to an accurate AI fake news detector?
In the ambitious pursuit to tackle the harms from false content on social media and news websites, data scientists are getting creative.
Nov 6, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Computational framework simplifies synthesized motions for human characters in 3D environments
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have become increasingly better at synthesizing images and videos showing humans, animals and objects. The automated generation of videos in which human characters engage in specific activities ...
Computer Sciences
Teaching LLMs how to know when to ask for help to provide more accurate answers
A team of computer scientists and AI researchers at the University of California, San Diego, working with a colleague from Tsinghua University, has developed a tactic that helps LLM models more easily determine when they ...
Computer Sciences
New framework enhances remote sensing image fusion with frequency-independent feature learning
A research team led by Prof. Xie Chengjun and Zhang Jie from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a frequency domain-independent feature learning framework that allows for ...
Nov 5, 2024
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Computer Sciences
New research could optimize the quiz bowl
A quiz bowl is usually an academic competition in which teams of students, typically from high schools or universities, compete by answering questions across a variety of subjects, such as history, science, literature, and ...
Nov 5, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Alternative model can identify fake news by processing both textual and visual data
The advent of the internet has changed the way people access and share information, making it easier for malicious individuals to spread biased, unreliable or false news. Recent technological advances, including artificial ...
Computer Sciences
Researchers address quantum computing security challenges
Alongside artificial intelligence, quantum computing is one of the fastest-growing subsets in the high-performance computing community. But what happens when this relatively new and powerful computing method reaches the limit ...
Nov 4, 2024
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Engineering
Revealing causal links in complex systems: New algorithm reveals hidden influences
Getting to the heart of causality is central to understanding the world around us. What causes one variable—be it a biological species, a voting region, a company stock, or a local climate—to shift from one state to another ...
Nov 1, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Optical computing: Large-scale programmable logic array achieves complex computations
Researchers have long sought to harness the power of light for computing, aiming to achieve higher speeds and lower energy consumption compared to traditional electronic systems. Optical computing, which uses light instead ...
Oct 30, 2024
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Business
New algorithm picks fairer shortlist when applicants abound
Cornell researchers developed a more equitable method for choosing top candidates from a large applicant pool in cases where insufficient information makes it hard to choose.
Oct 30, 2024
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Computer Sciences
How can you tell if text is AI-generated? Researchers have figured out a new method
Have you ever looked at a piece of writing and thought something might be "off"? It might be hard to pinpoint exactly what it is. There might be too many adjectives or the sentence structure might be overly repetitious. It ...
Oct 30, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Putting the ghost in the machine—team uses zero shot prompting method to get design solutions
A work environment that supports diverse problem solvers is a nonnegotiable for successful design teams. Chris McComb, expert on human-AI teaming, and his team of researchers are bridging the cognitive gaps between members ...
Oct 30, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Study finds GPS systems often mislead drivers
Blindly following GPS navigation can lead to difficult situations on the road. A research team has analyzed such incidents and is in favor of delegating more personal responsibility to drivers.
Oct 29, 2024
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Robotics
Alternating between independent and cooperative behavior allows robots to find their way through crowds
Robots can navigate efficiently through crowds of people by cleverly alternating between independent and cooperative behavior, and in such a way that they disturb the people around them as little as possible. This is the ...
Oct 29, 2024
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Computer Sciences
New algorithms increase the privacy of sensitive data
When you visit a doctor, information such as medication prescriptions, X-rays, and genetic tests is recorded to assist the physician. In these cases, a technology called federated learning, or collaborative learning, is used ...
Oct 29, 2024
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Computer Sciences
OpenAI unveils sCM, a new model that generates video media 50 times faster than current diffusion models
Two experts with the OpenAI team have developed a new kind of continuous-time consistency model (sCM) that they claim can generate video media 50 times faster than models currently in use. Cheng Lu and Yang Song have published ...
Computer Sciences
New tool makes songs unlearnable to generative AI
Nearly 200 years after Beethoven's death, a team of musicians and computer scientists created a generative artificial intelligence (AI) that completed his Tenth Symphony so convincingly that music scholars could not differentiate ...
Oct 23, 2024
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