Japan shifting back to nuclear to ditch coal, power AI

Masaki Daito, deputy superintendent of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power station, walks through a corridor inside the unit 7 reactor building. Glinting in the sun by the world’s biggest nuclear plant,…

New algorithm advances graph mining for complex networks

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science professor Nikolaos Sidiropoulos has introduced a breakthrough in graph mining with the development of a new computational…

US to probe Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ system after pedestrian killed in low visibility conditions

The logo of Tesla car is pictured at the Paris Auto Show, in Paris, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. Credit: AP Photo/Michel Euler The U.S. government’s road safety agency is investigating…

World’s First Face and Whole-Eye Transplant Marks Surgical Breakthrough

Summary: A surgical team successfully performed the world’s first combined face and whole-eye transplant, marking a significant advancement in transplant surgery. The operation, performed on a military veteran, involved more…

Study reveals potential top cyber threats facing health care extended reality technology

Researchers develop method enabling LLMs to answer questions more concisely and accurately

Credit: AI-generated image Large language models (LLMs) are machine-learning models designed to understand and generate human language. State-of-the-art LLMs have demonstrated outstanding potential in open-domain question answering (ODQA), where the…

When Does Election Debunking Work? New Model Provides Insights

Summary: A study using a computational model reveals factors that influence whether debunking efforts about disputed election results will persuade people to change their beliefs. The model shows that debunking…

AI is supposed to be Hollywood’s next big thing: What’s taking so long?

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Earlier this year, OpenAI and other artificial intelligence companies wooed Hollywood studios with the futuristic promise of AI tools that they said could help make the…

Autonomous disaster response technology successfully applied to fire extinguishing system of a 3,200-ton vessel

The research team led by Principal Researcher Byungchang Jung of the KIMM has successfully conducted a sea trial test of its smart valve system technology by applying it to the…

Combining next-token prediction and video diffusion in computer vision and robotics

Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology In the current AI zeitgeist, sequence models have skyrocketed in popularity for their ability to analyze data and predict what to do next. For instance,…