Simplified optical neural network component saves space and energy

(a) Diagram of experimental setup. (b) Microscopic image of conventional mesh used to simulate simplified mesh. Credit: Bo Wu et al. As research into photonic computing progresses, scientists seek to…

Researchers say chatbot exhibits self-awareness

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Are large language models sentient? If they are, how would we know? As a new generation of AI models have rendered the decades-old measure of a…

Human-AI collaboration improves source search outcomes

Active label distribution learning via kernel maximum mean discrepancy

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Label distribution learning (LDL) is a new learning paradigm to deal with label ambiguity. Compared with traditional supervised learning scenarios, annotation with label distribution is more…

Scales and self-checkouts to identify weighted goods faster

PseudoAugment principal scheme. Credit: Sergey Nesteruk and coauthors A research team from Skoltech and other institutions have pioneered a new fast way to distinguish weighted goods at a supermarket. Unlike…

How did developers create ‘Starfield,’ a video game with a galaxy of 1,000 planets?

Bethesda Game Studios used procedural generation to create virtual galaxy. It increased the game’s scope, but at what cost? Credit: Bethesda Game Studios When Todd Howard, director and executive producer…

IBM develops a new 64-core mixed-signal in-memory computing chip

A rendering of the IBM HERMES Project Chip. Credit: Le Gallo et al. For decades, electronics engineers have been trying to develop increasingly advanced devices that can perform complex computations…

Researchers weigh pros and cons of ChatGPT Code Interpreter, await upgrades

Code Interpreter, the newest official plugin for ChatGPT, didn’t make the grade from West Virginia University researchers who put it to the test using biological data. However, the team was…

Advancing trajectory tracking control of pneumatic artificial muscle-based systems

Using quantum computing to protect AI from attack

The vulnerability of neural networks raises safety concerns in potentially life-threatening situations like self-driving cars. Credit: Shutterstock Machine learning is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) where computer models become…