1+ hour, 51+ min ago  (401+ words) Rapid advances are rendering benchmarks obsolete in record time Mathematics is often regarded as the ideal domain for measuring AI progress effectively. Math's step-by-step logic is easy to track, and its definitive automatically verifiable answers remove any human or subjective…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (541+ words) A11yShape lets blind coders design and verify models on their own Blind and low-vision programmers can use a new program, A11yShape, to help them design and manipulate 3D objects as part of their coding work. Blind and low-vision programmers previously had to rely…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (176+ words) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum's robotics editor. Training autonomous robots in factory settings for eventual use in manufacturing facilities includes the robots learning to sort crates on a warehouse conveyor belt. Video Friday…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (722+ words) The February issue of IEEE Spectrum is here! There's a crisis in particle physics. Researchers hope AI can help. This historic cloud-chamber image shows the spiral tracks of charged particles'an early, visual way physicists studied the subatomic world. Four years…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (409+ words) Heat may be 10 billion times more efficient for randomization Charles Q. Choi is a contributing editor for IEEE Spectrum. Representation of a coupling pattern between representative hidden units and a visible layer from an independent dynamical trajectory of Whitelam's trained denoising…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (1202+ words) New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the span of ideas explored AI is turning scientists into publishing machines'and quietly funneling them into the same crowded corners of research. That's the conclusion of an analysis of more than 40 million academic papers,…...