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A prosthodontic digital guide for reproducing lip–instrument positioning for wind instruments

A digitally fabricated guide developed by researchers at Science Tokyo captures and reproduces the spatial relationship between a musician's lips and an air-reed instrument, such as a shakuhachi flute. By combining facial ...

Computer Sciences

Tiny polymer devices mimic neuron firing, pointing toward energy-efficient edge computing

MIT researchers have created a computing platform that could be used to develop intelligent and adaptive next-generation electronics that can perform multiple functions, like computing and memory, within one extremely compact, ...

Computer Sciences

AI imagines a harsher social world, expecting punishment where people expect inaction

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly the large language models (LLMs) that underpin ChatGPT and similar platforms, are remarkably skilled at answering queries about a wide range of topics. However, the extent ...

Computer Sciences

'Hardflow' algorithm could help generative AI produce high-quality outputs that obey strict requirements

MIT researchers have developed a new technique that helps generative artificial intelligence models find solutions to high-stakes problems. In these settings, a plausible answer is not enough: The output often must also satisfy ...

Computer Sciences

A blueprint for keeping humans in control of AI

William Overman began his Ph.D. program at Stanford Graduate School of Business at an auspicious moment: just two months before ChatGPT launched publicly in November 2022, exploding the widely held understanding of what machines ...

Software

How randomness tames vast network problems

Networks are everywhere. They connect computers across the internet, carry electricity through power grids and represent transport routes for moving people and goods. Yet many problems that appear to have nothing to do with ...

Computer Sciences

Bringing classical LDPC code design theory to quantum computers

Quantum error correction must detect and correct errors without directly reading the quantum information. Classical low-density parity check (LDPC) codes have a well-established design theory: by choosing how many checks ...

Computer Sciences

'Safe query space' lets AI fix SQL errors without starting over

"Find the best-selling product from last year." When an AI system attempts to answer a question like this by querying a company database, even a single reference to a nonexistent item can cause the query to fail. Until now, ...

Computer Sciences

Why AI can't understand a flower the way humans do

Even with all its training and computer power, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool like ChatGPT can't represent the concept of a flower the way a human does, according to a new study.

Computer Sciences

Teaching AI models the broad strokes to sketch more like humans do

When you're trying to communicate or understand ideas, words don't always do the trick. Sometimes the more efficient approach is to do a simple sketch of that concept—for example, diagramming a circuit might help make sense ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Self-powered artificial synapse mimics human color vision

As artificial intelligence and smart devices continue to evolve, machine vision is taking an increasingly pivotal role as a key enabler of modern technologies. Unfortunately, despite much progress, machine vision systems ...

Computer Sciences

Beyond translation: Multilingual benchmark makes AI multicultural

Imagine asking a conversational bot like Claude or ChatGPT a legal question in Greek about local traffic regulations. Within seconds, it replies in fluent Greek with an answer based on UK law. The model understood the language, ...

Computer Sciences

AI approach developed with human decision-makers in mind

As artificial intelligence takes off, how do we efficiently integrate it into our lives and our work? Bridging the gap between promise and practice, Jann Spiess, an associate professor of operations, information, and technology ...

Computer Sciences

Team teaches AI models to spot misleading scientific reporting

Artificial intelligence isn't always a reliable source of information: large language models (LLMs) like Llama and ChatGPT can be prone to "hallucinating" and inventing bogus facts. But what if AI could be used to detect ...

Computer Sciences

AI learns languages similarly to humans, study shows

An AI system that learns language autonomously develops a language structured in the same way as human language. And just as we humans learn from previous generations, AI models get better when they take advantage of the ...

Computer Sciences

Hidden labor of computer history explored by researcher

Computer history is not only a history of machines but also of politics, culture, language—and human work. Julia Ravanis' doctoral thesis focuses on the work of some of Sweden's computing pioneers at the Swedish Defense Research ...