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A bot-only social media platform: What the Moltbook experiment is teaching us about AI

What happens when you create a social media platform that only AI bots can post to? The answer, it turns out, is both entertaining and concerning. Moltbook is exactly that—a platform where artificial intelligence agents ...

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Does AI understand word impressions like humans do?

By now, it's no secret that large language models (LLMs) are experts at mimicking natural language. Trained on vast troves of data, these models have proven themselves capable of generating text so convincing that it regularly ...

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'TransMiter' technique transplants learned knowledge between AI models

How inconvenient would it be if you had to manually transfer every contact and photo from scratch every time you switched to a new smartphone? Current artificial intelligence (AI) models face a similar predicament. Whenever ...

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Moore's law: The famous rule of computing has reached the end of the road, so what comes next?

For half a century, computing advanced in a reassuring, predictable way. Transistors—devices used to switch electrical signals on a computer chip—became smaller. Consequently, computer chips became faster, and society ...

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New method helps AI reason like humans without extra training data

A study led by UC Riverside researchers offers a practical fix to one of artificial intelligence's toughest challenges by enabling AI systems to reason more like humans—without requiring new training data beyond test questions.

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Making blockchain fast enough for IoT networks

The vision of a fully connected world is rapidly becoming a reality through the Internet of Things (IoT)—a growing network of physical devices that collect and share data over the Internet, including everything from small ...

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Creative talent: Has AI knocked humans out?

Are generative artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT truly creative? A research team led by Professor Karim Jerbi from the Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal, and including AI pioneer Yoshua ...

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Using AI to understand how emotions are formed

Emotions are a fundamental part of human psychology—a complex process that has long distinguished us from machines. Even advanced artificial intelligence (AI) lacks the capacity to feel. However, researchers are now exploring ...

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'Rosetta stone' for database inputs reveals serious security issue

The data inputs that enable modern search and recommendation systems were thought to be secure, but an algorithm developed by Cornell Tech researchers successfully teased out names, medical diagnoses and financial information ...

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Digital technique puts rendered fabric in the best light

The sheen of satin, the subtle glints of twill, the translucence of sheer silk: Fabric has long been difficult to render digitally because of the myriad ways different yarns can be woven or knitted together.

Computer Sciences

Shrinking AI memory boosts accuracy, study finds

Researchers have developed a new way to compress the memory used by AI models to increase their accuracy in complex tasks or help save significant amounts of energy.

Computer Sciences

Generative AIs fail at the game of visual 'telephone'

Generative AIs may not be as creative as we assume. Publishing in the journal Patterns, researchers show that when image-generating and image-describing AIs pass the same descriptive scene back and forth, they quickly veer ...

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Creating realistic 3D scenes from everyday online photos

A new approach is making it easier to visualize lifelike 3D environments from everyday photos already shared online, opening new possibilities in industries such as gaming, virtual tourism and cultural preservation.

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How AI helps solve problems it doesn't even understand

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered an unexpected connection between two very different areas of artificial intelligence: Large Language Models (LLMs) can help solve logical problems—without actually "understanding" ...

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Enabling small language models to solve complex reasoning tasks

As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that human-like reasoning is around the corner. In reality, they still trail us by a wide margin on complex ...