Wednesday - May 24 2023, 16:07 UTC - 1 year ago

Inostrancevia, a saber-tooth animal the size of a tiger, played an important role during the Great Dying extinction event. This species may have traveled an incredible 7000 kilometers across the supercontinent Pangaea to fill the ecological need left by the demise of top predators. Studying this extinction event can help us address current ecological problems and prevent similar catastrophes in the future.

Wednesday - May 24 2023, 14:45 UTC - 1 year ago

Recent studies by the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory of the U.S. Geological Survey have shed light on the Yellowstone Caldera's development being more complex than previously thought, as the two out of three super-eruptions during the last three million years have exhibited a phased nature. Scientists are now working to better understand the volcano in order to prepare for potential future eruptions.

Wednesday - May 24 2023, 12:48 UTC - 1 year ago

Meituan's delivery drones have been in operation in Shenzhen since 2022, providing meal and drink delivery to customers who have ordered from the app. The drones can fly with precise timing and accuracy thanks to automated flight systems. Although the drones have limitations, such as flight time and distance, they are a convenient way for customers to receive their orders on time.

Wednesday - May 24 2023, 11:20 UTC - 1 year ago

For all those harried by the lack of privacy on flights or cafes, Israeli startup Sightful has a nifty solution in the store. The Spacetop uses Augmented Reality (AR) glasses to project a virtual display of up to 100 inches, visible only by the wearer. It also weighs just 1.5 KG and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chip with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage. Currently, there is no date for when the Spacetop will be available but interested users can register with no upfront payment.

Wednesday - May 24 2023, 09:35 UTC - 1 year ago

The 🤗 Open LLM Leaderboard is the first leaderboard to track the performance of LLMs and chatbots with models submitted from the community. It evaluates models on 4 key benchmarks and only accepts 🤗 Transformers models with weights on the Hub. The leading open source models are llama-65b and MetaIX/GPT4-X-Alpasta-30b, with the latter being the newest model in MosaicML Foundation Series. The latest model MPT-7B was trained from scratch on 1T tokens of text and code in 9.5 days and is open source, available for commercial use. Three finetuned models have been released in addition to the base MPT-7B.

Wednesday - May 24 2023, 07:44 UTC - 1 year ago

AI detectors that are employed to distinguish AI generated content from human generated content are unreliable, especially so when the real author is not a native English speaker. This raises serious ethical questions and therefore, it is advisable to avoid using AI detectors in educational settings and to find more sophisticated techniques to counter cheating.

Wednesday - May 24 2023, 06:37 UTC - 1 year ago

US Legislators and American Tech Companies are begging for the creation of a new agency to regulate AI, with pre-ChatGPT Algorithmic Accountability Act proposed to address the tangible harms of automated decision making systems, ADPPA to regulate data collection and processing, a Digital Platform Commission Act also proposed to protect data, and a new digital regulator in the Senate for policing and licensing social media companies.

Wednesday - May 24 2023, 04:56 UTC - 1 year ago

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's new AI Challenge aims to improve the lives of women, children, and vulnerable communities through the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The total budget for the initiatives is $3 million and it offers up to $100,000 each to projects that test new methods for using AI to overcome everyday obstacles in low- and middle-income countries.

Wednesday - May 24 2023, 03:32 UTC - 1 year ago

Researchers from Lund University found that visual perspective taking, the ability to follow an obstructed gaze, originated in the dinosaur lineage around 60 million years prior to its emergence in mammals. This highlights the cognitive abilities of birds and their dinosaur ancestors, challenging the notion that complex cognition evolved only within the mammal lineage.

Wednesday - May 24 2023, 01:49 UTC - 1 year ago

Using the VISTA telescope, astronomers have created an extensive infrared atlas of five nearby stellar nurseries by combining over one million images. This atlas provides insights into the complex process of star formation and reveals previously unseen objects. With this survey, astronomers hope to gain a better understanding of the complex processes of star formation.

Tuesday - May 23 2023, 23:56 UTC - 1 year ago

AI black boxes refer to AI systems with internal workings that are invisible to the user. Developers often put the model or training data in a black box in order to protect their intellectual property. However, black boxes can be dangerous, particularly in safety-critical applications. The opposite of a black box, a glass box, is a system with all algorithms, training data and model available for anyone to see. The field of explainable AI is working to develop algorithms that, while not necessarily glass box, can be better understood by humans.

Tuesday - May 23 2023, 22:45 UTC - 1 year ago

Meituan, a Chinese grocery delivery service, is the first to deliver in urban areas by drones, using automated and human labor to transport orders. Meituan has already made more than 100,000 drone deliveries in Shenzhen and continues to show that regular drone delivery in cities is possible. Through human and drone operators, high-resolution cameras, infrared sensors, and programmed mapping information, Meituan ensures that their drones are able to navigate densely populated cities with ease.

Tuesday - May 23 2023, 21:13 UTC - 1 year ago

A team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new innovative device: a wireless, comfortable e-tattoo for cardiac measurements. Early detection and treatment of heart diseases is essential for overall health and a better quality of life, but current monitoring devices are too expensive, bulky, and difficult to use. This new device provides hope for long-term, accurate monitoring of cardiac health.

Tuesday - May 23 2023, 19:49 UTC - 1 year ago

A study published last month suggests that natural and artificial networks learn in similar ways, at least when it comes to language. The study used a type of neural network architecture called a generative adversarial network (GAN) and found that both the human and artificial brain signals were uncannily similar, implying human brains may not come already prepared for language processing.

Tuesday - May 23 2023, 18:14 UTC - 1 year ago

Scientists from the Finnish Hub for Development and Validation of Integrated Approaches (FHAIVE FHAIVE) and Tampere University have uncovered a novel response mechanism related to nanoparticle exposure that’s shared across various species. This discovery elucidates the adaptation process of diverse species to such exposures, and has broader implications than just toxicology. This research can lead to an understanding of how particulate matter affects our immune system, and ultimately help us to predict the effects of chemical exposures on many species at a time.

Tuesday - May 23 2023, 17:11 UTC - 1 year ago

A new study from Södertörn University in Sweden has shed light on public attitudes towards automated decision-making. Citizens in Estonia and Sweden were found to be more positive than those of Germany. There is a need to inform the public about providing data for the system and increasing involvement in these issues. EU is promoting AI to tackle climate crisis while emphasizing the perspective of civil society may be difficult in some contexts.

Tuesday - May 23 2023, 15:35 UTC - 1 year ago

AI systems can produce content that seems like it was written by a person, however, it does not have the ability to think or understand. Alan Turing's Turing test rules out the possible implications of AI to think and understand and Neuroscientist Christof Koch believes that scientists have yet to pin down the "neural correlates of consciousness" and connect it with AI's capabilities. Therefore, AI cannot think or understand.

Tuesday - May 23 2023, 13:24 UTC - 1 year ago

IBM Research is currently developing a roadmap to power a quantum-centric supercomputer with 100,000 qubits by 2033. The company has laid out a plan to hit 1,000 qubit processors by the end of 2023 and 4,000 qubits by the end of 2025. IBM is one of the world's leading companies in the quantum computing race working to increase the number of qubits within processors and develop error-correcting methods.

Tuesday - May 23 2023, 12:18 UTC - 1 year ago

A high schooler from The Woodlands College Park High School, has developed an AI based app that can detect signs of suicide risk with 98% accuracy and has won 9th place in the 81-year-old Regeneron Science Talent Search competition and winning a $50,000 prize. Despite experts arguing that chatbots are not the silver bullet for detection, they still see promise in the development. Pachipala believes it is time to revolutionize the way in which we approach suicide prevention.