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Improving AI-generated images, pixel by pixel

If you have ever used an artificial intelligence text-to-image generator like ChatGPT or Google Gemini, you may have encountered a common but maddening problem: The image looks nearly perfect, but when you ask the AI to fix ...

Energy & Green Tech

Virtual modeling reveals safety measures for battery-powered mining systems

The mining industry is shifting toward battery-powered equipment to improve efficiency, but lithium-ion batteries pose risks due to their high energy density. They can fail, overheat and, in some cases, catch fire, releasing ...

Computer Sciences

Q&A: How AI came to model the 'messy' human mind

Generative artificial intelligence models are rooted in ideas of mid-20th-century engineers who thought some amount of irrationality was essential for a machine that could think like a human, contends Benjamin Lindquist, ...

Computer Sciences

Strand AI on a desert island, and it starts playing and inventing games

AI agents tend to do things when we give them specific commands, such as analyzing data and answering questions. But what would they do if left to their own devices?

Computer Sciences

Can AI understand space, time and pain?

Artificial intelligence can do remarkable things, but how much does it actually understand about the world? Researchers have found that surprisingly specific information can be extracted from the inner workings of large language ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Tiny droplets form soft networks for brain-inspired computing

Inside the human brain, billions of individual neurons connect to form a vast network capable of rapidly processing information and electrical signals. A team of researchers and engineers at Penn State is taking inspiration ...

Computer Sciences

Can scientists build a lie detector for AI chatbots?

Ask an AI chatbot for some medical advice and it might recommend you head to the hospital when all you really have is indigestion. One of the biggest issues with AI chatbots today is that they can still share false information, ...

Computer Sciences

The tests that grade AI may be getting it wrong

Before a new AI model reaches the public, its developers run it through a battery of tests known as "benchmarks," which score it on everything from reasoning ability to how safe it is for people to use. Billions of investment ...

Internet

Orphan articles: The 'dark matter' of Wikipedia

Wikipedia is the largest platform for open and freely accessible knowledge online yet, in a new study, EPFL researchers have found that around 15% of the content is effectively invisible to readers browsing within Wikipedia. ...

Computer Sciences

Aurora supercomputer breaks exascale barrier

Aurora's speed and artificial intelligence capabilities will transform scientific research and enable breakthroughs in some of the world's most pressing challenges, from climate and materials science to energy storage and ...

Computer Sciences

Researchers improve scene perception with innovative framework

Led by Prof. Liu Yong from the Hefei lnstitutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers have proposed a novel framework, called Clip-based Knowledge Transfer and Relational Context Mining (CKT-RCM), ...

Computer Sciences

3D video conferencing tool lets remote user control the view

Collaborating on a physical object when two people aren't in the same room can be extremely challenging, but a new remote conferencing system allows the remote user to manipulate a view of the scene in 3D, to assist in complex ...