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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

How AI models decide not to answer a question

Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems supporting the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini and similar conversational platforms, are often expected to answer queries, generate texts for specific ...

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

New method efficiently safeguards sensitive AI training data

Data privacy comes with a cost. There are security techniques that protect sensitive user data, like customer addresses, from attackers who may attempt to extract them from AI models—but they often make those models less ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Using virtual reality to connect players with ocean ecosystems

Fewer people have been to the deepest parts of the ocean than have walked on the surface of the moon. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Transformational Play are hoping a virtual trip into the watery ...

Computer Sciences

How to build trustworthy AI without trusted data

Today, almost everybody has heard of AI and millions around the world already use, or are exposed, to it—from ChatGPT writing our emails, to helping with medical diagnosis.

Computer Sciences

3D streaming gets leaner by seeing only what matters

A new approach to streaming technology may significantly improve how users experience virtual reality and augmented reality environments, according to a study from NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

Computer Sciences

AI with, for and by everyone can help maximize its benefits

Humans' ability to learn from one another across cultures over generations drives our success as a species as much as our individual intelligence. This collective cultural brain has led to new innovations and developed bodies ...

Computer Sciences

Humans as hardware: Computing with biological tissue

Most computers run on microchips, but what if we've been overlooking a simpler, more elegant computational tool all this time? In fact, what if we were the computational tool?

Computer Sciences

BAFT AI autosave system can cut training losses by 98%

A research collaboration between Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Qi Zhi Institution, and Huawei Technologies has introduced BAFT, a cutting-edge autosave system for AI training that minimizes downtime and optimizes ...

Computer Sciences

Neural network learns to hesitate for improved accuracy

Researchers from the Skoltech AI Center, together with colleagues from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, have developed a method that allows neural networks to more accurately ...