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Computer Sciences
Fake credentials offer novel solution to e-voting challenges
As we come to the end of a year in which half the world's population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Modern AI systems have achieved Turing's vision, but not exactly how he hoped
A recent perspective published Nov. 13 in Intelligent Computing, asserts that today's artificial intelligence systems have finally realized Alan Turing's vision from over 70 years ago: machines that can genuinely learn from ...
Dec 20, 2024
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AI-powered algorithm enables personalized age transformation for human faces
Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland recently developed MyTimeMachine (MyTM), a new AI-powered method for personalized age transformation that can make human faces in images ...
AI 'Machine Psychology' could unlock human-level intelligence, says researcher
Artificial intelligence that is as intelligent as humans may become possible thanks to psychological learning models, combined with certain types of AI. This is the conclusion of Robert Johansson, who in his dissertation, ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?
When it comes to digital access and internet technologies, some languages are still more equal than others. Speakers of majority languages, who type in English or text in Korean, assume their message will be transmitted accurately. ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Biological computers could use far less energy than current technology by working more slowly
Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometer-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably and at a rate of millions of operations per second.
Dec 18, 2024
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Single-stream model enhances image translation efficiency
Among the many artificial intelligence and machine learning models available today for image translation, image-to-image translation models using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can change the style of images.
Dec 16, 2024
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Quantum algorithms can break generative AI bottlenecks
Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) have found that quantum algorithms could speed up generative artificial intelligence (AI) creation and usage.
Dec 12, 2024
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AI mirrors human biases: Study reveals 'us vs. them' tendencies in large language models
Research has long shown that humans are susceptible to "social identity bias"—favoring their group, whether that be a political party, a religion, or an ethnicity, and disparaging "outgroups." A new study by a team of scientists ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Coming soon—offline speech recognition on your phone
More than one in four people currently integrate speech recognition into their daily lives. A new algorithm developed by a University of Copenhagen researcher and his international colleagues makes it possible to interact ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Language database improves automatic speech recognition of Austrian German
Second-language speakers who come to Austria with a good knowledge of German usually find it difficult to understand the local dialects. Similarly, speech recognition systems often fail to decode regionally accented word ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Quantum computing's next step: New algorithm boosts multitasking
Quantum computers differ fundamentally from classical ones. Instead of using bits (0s and 1s), they employ "qubits," which can exist in multiple states simultaneously due to quantum phenomena like superposition and entanglement.
Dec 10, 2024
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Enabling AI to explain its predictions in plain language
Machine-learning models can make mistakes and be difficult to use, so scientists have developed explanation methods to help users understand when and how they should trust a model's predictions.
Dec 10, 2024
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Researchers create network to predict wave scattering paths
To efficiently compute where waves of light, sound, or earthquakes will go when scattered by irregular obstacles is useful in various fields but difficult and expensive to do, even using recent machine learning techniques. ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Finding the weak points: A network-based method to prevent train delay cascades
Train delays are not only a common frustration for passengers but can also lead to significant economic losses, especially when they cascade through the railway network. When a train is delayed, it often triggers a chain ...
Dec 9, 2024
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Citation tool offers a new approach to trustworthy AI-generated content
Chatbots can wear a lot of proverbial hats: dictionary, therapist, poet, all-knowing friend. The artificial intelligence models that power these systems appear exceptionally skilled and efficient at providing answers, clarifying ...
Dec 9, 2024
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Black-box forgetting: A new method for tailoring large AI models
The capabilities of large-scale pre-trained AI models have recently skyrocketed, as demonstrated by large-scale vision-language models like CLIP or ChatGPT. These typical generalist models can perform reasonably well in tasks ...
Dec 9, 2024
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AI weather models can now beat the best traditional forecasts
A new machine-learning weather prediction model called GenCast can outperform the best traditional forecasting systems in at least some situations, according to a paper by Google DeepMind researchers published today in Nature.
Dec 5, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
New tool makes micro:bit programming portable for young learners
A new coding tool will help make it easier for children to portably program a popular educational micro-computer on the fly. Researchers from Lancaster University's School of Computing and Communications working in partnership ...
Dec 4, 2024
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Simple fix can help generative AI create more realistic 3D shapes
Creating realistic 3D models for applications like virtual reality, filmmaking, and engineering design can be a cumbersome process requiring lots of manual trial and error.
Dec 4, 2024
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AI researchers suggest open LLMs are not as open as claimed
A trio of AI researchers from Cornell University, Signal Foundation, and Now Institute have published a Perspective piece in the journal Nature, arguing that well-known open LLMs are not nearly as open as their makers claim.
Computer Sciences
Opening the black box: How 'explainable AI' can help us understand how algorithms work
When you visit a hospital, artificial intelligence (AI) models can assist doctors by analyzing medical images or predicting patient outcomes based on historical data. If you apply for a job, AI algorithms can be used to screen ...
Dec 3, 2024
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Machine learning helps uncover hidden consumer motivations
A common challenge for marketers is understanding and engaging with people who have "thin" data profiles, such as donors with little demographic information or brief interaction histories that leave organizations without ...
Dec 2, 2024
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Study reveals need for better documentation of web crawlers
For the first time, CISPA researcher Aleksei Stafeev presents a study that systematizes the knowledge about tools for the automated analysis of websites, so-called web crawlers, in the field of web security measurement.
Nov 29, 2024
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Shrinking AI for personal devices: An efficient small language model that could perform better on smartphones
Large language models (LLMs), such as Open AI's renowned conversational platform ChatGPT, have recently become increasingly widespread, with many internet users relying on them to find information quickly and produce texts ...
