Computer Sciences

New neural framework could make LLMs more empathetic

As more people turn to large language models (LLMs) during personal crises, the companies behind them are engineering these AI-powered models to be more personal, empathetic and understanding when prompts indicate a user ...

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

Seeing Rembrandt through the eyes of a machine

A few hundred years ago, determining whether a painting was created by a master like Rembrandt or a talented copycat depended only on the trained eye of an expert. Then, new tools like X-rays and infrared imaging allowed ...

Computer Sciences

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 ...