Squashing 'fantastic bugs' hidden in AI benchmarks
After reviewing thousands of benchmarks used in AI development, a Stanford team found that 5% could have serious flaws with far-reaching ramifications.
Dec 11, 2025
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After reviewing thousands of benchmarks used in AI development, a Stanford team found that 5% could have serious flaws with far-reaching ramifications.
Dec 11, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Artificial intelligence systems absorb values from their training data. The trouble is that values differ across cultures. So an AI system trained on data from the entire internet won't work equally well for people from different ...
Dec 11, 2025
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MIT researchers have developed a method that generates more accurate uncertainty measures for certain types of estimation. This could help improve the reliability of data analyses in areas like economics, epidemiology, and ...
Dec 11, 2025
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Computer Sciences
As the world's reliance on satellites intensifies, so too does the risk of sophisticated cyberattacks targeting space-based systems and critical infrastructure, with almost 240 cyber hacks targeting the space sector in the ...
Dec 11, 2025
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Software
Realistic digital avatars are becoming increasingly relevant, for example in virtual and augmented reality applications, video conferencing, films and computer games, or in medicine. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute ...
Dec 9, 2025
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Computer Sciences
A much faster, more efficient training method developed at the University of Waterloo could help put powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the hands of many more people by reducing the cost and environmental impact ...
Dec 9, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Professor Kijung Shin's research team at the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI has developed an AI technology that predicts complex social group behavior by analyzing how individual attributes such as age and role influence ...
Dec 9, 2025
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Hardware
Developing chips that simulate how the brain works has great promise for AI, robotics, and other fields. But making them so that they're scalable while providing repeatable results has proven tricky. Now, a Yale-led team ...
Dec 8, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Adopting digital twin technology to manage the power consumption of idle devices could save organizations thousands of pounds a year and help reduce their carbon footprint, new research suggests.
Dec 5, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Modern neural networks, with billions of parameters, are so overparameterized that they can "overfit" even random, structureless data. Yet when trained on datasets with structure, they learn the underlying features.
Dec 5, 2025
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