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AI Boosts Researchers' View in Cell Biology
4+ hour, 48+ min ago (585+ words) To overcome this problem, researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and ETH Zurich/Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) developed an artificial intelligence-driven framework that learns which information about a cell's state is shared across different measurement modalities and…...
Why Human Language Differs From Computer Code
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (422+ words) Human language is remarkably rich and intricate. Yet from the standpoint of information theory, the same ideas could theoretically be transmitted in a far more compressed format. That raises an intriguing question: why do people not communicate in a digital…...
How Can You Rescue kidnapped Robot? New AI System Helps Robot Regain Its Sense Of Location In Dynamic, Ever-changing Environments
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (287+ words) Mobile robots must continuously estimate their position to navigate autonomously. However, satellite-based navigation systems are not always reliable: signals may degrade near buildings or become unavailable indoors. To operate safely and efficiently, robots must interpret their surroundings using onboard sensors…...
Research Finds Overconfidence in Spotting AI-Generated Faces
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (621+ words) Most people believe they can spot AI-generated faces, but that confidence is out of date, research from UNSW Sydney and the Australian National University (ANU) has demonstrated. With AI-generated faces now almost impossible to distinguish from real ones, this misplaced…...
Generative AI: Study Warns of Collaborative Hallucinations
1+ week, 2+ day ago (482+ words) When generative AI systems produce false information, this is often framed as AI "hallucinating at us"-generating errors that we might mistakenly accept as true. But a new study argues we should pay attention to a more dynamic phenomenon: how…...
Quake Data Forms Base for AI Science Model
1+ week, 6+ day ago (451+ words) RICHLAND, Wash.-There's been a seismic shift in science, with scientists developing new AI tools and applying AI to just about any question that can be asked. Researchers are now putting actual seismic waves to work, using data from the…...
Mathematics Key to Next-Gen AI Advancement
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (458+ words) Peter Grindrod CBE, Professor in Oxford University's Mathematical Institute and Co-Investigator of the Erlangen AI Hub, outlines why mathematics is pivotal for all artificial intelligence technologies, and how future leadership will depend on investing in numerical disciplines. More recently, we…...
AI Tracks Vital White Matter Pathways
2+ week, 16+ hour ago (356+ words) In a new study, a team of MIT, Harvard University, and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers unveil AI-powered software capable of automatically segmenting eight distinct bundles in any diffusion MRI sequence. Brown is the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Computational Neuroscience…...
Durham Philosopher Pioneers AI and Democracy Ethics
2+ week, 1+ day ago (326+ words) Dr Jack Symes from our top-rated Philosophy Department has recently taken part in high-profile international discussions in Davos. He will soon speak at World Forum in Berlin, helping to bring philosophical thinking into debates about technology, democracy and the future…...
Surprising Connection Found in Spin Glass Phenomena
2+ week, 1+ day ago (449+ words) In most materials, lowering the temperature calms internal motion and leads to an orderly state. This is a basic rule of physics. However, there is a class of materials that defies this rule: spin glasses. In spin glasses, tiny atomic…...