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…

How sure is sure? Incorporating human error into machine learning

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers are developing a way to incorporate one of the most human of characteristics—uncertainty—into machine learning systems. Human error and uncertainty are concepts that many artificial…

Researchers improve environmental monitoring applications

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A research team from Wayne State University’s National Institutes of Health-funded Superfund Research Program, the Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness and Research (CLEAR), recently published…

Exploring the effects of feeding emotional stimuli to large language models

Researchers trick large language models into providing prohibited responses

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain ChatGPT and Bard may well be key players in the digital revolution currently underway in computing, coding, medicine, education, industry and finance, but they also are…