Consumer & Gadgets

Q&A: Language models—a guide for the perplexed

Language models have, somewhat surreptitiously, dominated news for the last year. Often called "artificial intelligence," these systems underlie chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard.

Machine learning & AI

ChatGPT poem regurgitation raises ethical questions

Ask ChatGPT to find a well-known poem and it will probably regurgitate the entire text verbatim—regardless of copyright law—according to a new study by Cornell researchers.

Consumer & Gadgets

Apple flash: Our smart devices will soon be smarter

Our smart devices take voice commands from us, check our heartbeats, track our sleep, translate text, send us reminders, capture photos and movies, and let us talk to family and friends continents away.

Computer Sciences

Can large language models detect sarcasm?

Large language models (LLMs) are advanced deep learning algorithms that can analyze prompts in various human languages, subsequently generating realistic and exhaustive answers. This promising class of natural language processing ...

Machine learning & AI

Leveraging language models for fusion energy research

Since the advent of fusion research, scientists have published thousands of documents on the subject—papers, conference proceedings, and even written logs from previous experiments at fusion reactors around the world. Such ...

Robotics

GPT-4 driven robot takes selfies, 'eats' popcorn

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo has built a bridge between large language models and robots that promises more humanlike gestures while dispensing with traditional hardware-dependent controls.

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