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Computer Sciences

Computing scheme accelerates machine learning while improving energy efficiency of traditional data operations

Artificial intelligence (AI) models like ChatGPT run on algorithms and have great appetites for data, which they process through machine learning, but what about the limits of their data-processing abilities? Researchers ...

Computer Sciences

New AI model breaks barriers in cross-modality machine vision learning

Recently, the research team led by Prof. Wang Hongqiang from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed a wide-ranging cross-modality machine vision AI model.

Computer Sciences

Distinguishing real sounds from deepfakes

Deepfake videos generated by artificial intelligence grow increasingly difficult to identify as false, a challenge that could significantly skew the results of the upcoming presidential election.

Computer Sciences

Computational marathon matches the efficiency of existing platform with the power of new supercomputer

It took about 20 hours and a lot of coffee for a team of scientists from the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research NCCR MARVEL to complete a computational marathon that showcased both the power of Switzerland's ...

Computer Sciences

Deep learning drives dynamic autofocus in grayscale images

Researchers from the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a novel autofocus method that harnesses the power of deep learning to dynamically select regions ...

Computer Sciences

New research could make weird AI images a thing of the past

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has notoriously struggled to create consistent images, often getting details like fingers and facial symmetry wrong. Moreover, these models can completely fail when prompted to generate ...

Software

Quantum algorithm adopted by Google and IBM

An algorithm developed by Prakash Vedula, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, has been incorporated into advanced computing software developed by Google and IBM. ...

Computer Sciences

Exploring the fundamental reasoning abilities of LLMs

Reasoning, the process through which human beings mentally process information to draw specific conclusions or solve problems, can be divided into two main categories. The first type of reasoning, known as deductive reasoning, ...

Computer Sciences

Whole-message AI communication seen as more useful

As large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 are further developed, they will naturally become better at using available information to generate useful text on virtually any topic—not only by the phrase or sentence, but ...

Computer Sciences

Prepare for landing: Making airports more efficient

Air traffic is a significant and complex problem. Near misses between passenger planes on runways have been making headlines lately and raising safety concerns as airports try to accommodate more travelers in the wake of ...

Computer Sciences

Digital restoration of historical documents

One of the best ways to learn about any historical period is by conversing with the people who lived through it. Speaking with people from the distant past is very one-sided, as they are typically dead and have stopped listening ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Team devises crystal-clear solution to quantum computing puzzle

University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed a new approach that addresses challenges in the field of quantum computing and has the potential to revolutionize computing, communications and electronic security.

Computer Sciences

A design tool to democratize the art of color-changing mosaics

A colorful new design tool developed by MIT researchers allows individuals to create polarized light mosaics that can be printed on cellophane to make data visualizations, passive light displays, mechanical animations, fashion ...

Computer Sciences

Shining a light into the 'black box' of AI

Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a novel method for evaluating the interpretability of artificial intelligence ...

Software

Q&A: How to make computing more sustainable

Ask your computer or phone to translate a sentence from English to Italian. No problem, right? But this task is not as easy as it appears. The software behind your screen had to learn how to process hundreds of billions of ...

Computer Sciences

AI algorithm puts the color back in black and white films

Countless historical photographs are stored in black and white in the world's archives. Today, these cultural assets and contemporary documents are conserved by means of digitization and (partially) improved through digital ...

Computer Sciences

New study identifies how AI fails to reproduce human vision

When a human spots a familiar face or an oncoming vehicle, it takes the brain a mere 100 milliseconds (about one-tenth of a second) to identify it and more importantly, place it in the right context so it can be understood, ...

Computer Sciences

Is the text real or fake? Tell the difference with science's help

AI tech tools such as ChatGPT are stealing the headlines. From writing poetry in a style reminiscent of 16th-century England to authoring academic research papers, chatbots designed for real-world services aren't going anywhere.

Robotics

An effective strategy to remotely operate snake robots

Animals have always been a great inspiration for robotic systems, as they offer fascinating natural examples of how different body structures can produce specific movements and locomotion styles. While most animal-inspired ...