By Roger Van Scyoc On a cool afternoon at the heart of the University of Washington’s campus, autumn, for a few fleeting moments, appears to have arrived early. Tiny golden squares resembling leaves flutter then fall, switching from a frenzied tumble to a graceful descent with a snap. Aptly named “microfliers” and inspired by Miura-fold …
DeepMind used AI models to optimize their own prompts, with surprising results. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Google DeepMind researchers recently developed a technique to improve math ability in AI language models like ChatGPT by using other AI models to improve prompting—the written instructions that tell the AI model what to do. It found that …
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In an increasingly interconnected globe, humanity faces a slew of complex global concerns that cut beyond geographical, cultural, and disciplinary lines. Due to their diverse character, these challenges—which include problems like socio-economic injustice, sickness, and environmental degradation—display remarkable complexity. The unpredictable interactions of variables frequently result in cascading effects that defy conventional approaches …
The victim shaming website operated by the cybercriminals behind 8Base — currently one of the more active ransomware groups — was until earlier today leaking quite a bit of information that the crime group probably did not intend to be made public. The leaked data suggests that at least some of website’s code was …
By Helen Massy-Beresford Imagine a single technology that could help a robot perform safety checks at a nuclear plant, cure a person’s arachnophobia and simulate the feeling of a hug from a distant relative. Welcome to the world of “extended reality”. Researchers funded by the EU have sought to demonstrate its enormous potential. Relevant research …
Where’s Waldo LLC (“Waldo”), your U.K.-based digital advertising company, just got funded. Wonderful news! But it also just received a notice from the California Attorney General. Not wonderful. Why did you receive it? In the AG’s view, Waldo has been doing business in California since 2019. Along the way, Waldo’s AI has been …
Every machine learning project starts simple – that’s a good thing. But at some point you need to promote it to production-grade. With 3 lines of code, you can get from a notebook to a central source of truth with code, data, models, and experiments which you can share with team members. TL;DR …
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By Deborah Pirchner Malaria is an infectious disease claiming more than half a million lives each year. Because traditional diagnosis takes expertise and the workload is high, an international team of researchers investigated if diagnosis using a new system combining an automatic scanning microscope and AI is feasible in clinical settings. They found that the …
High-tech microscope with ML software for detecting malaria in returning travellers Read More »
In December 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that a cybercriminal using the handle “USDoD” had infiltrated the FBI’s vetted information sharing network InfraGard, and was selling the contact information for all 80,000 members. The FBI responded by reverifying all InfraGard members and by seizing the cybercrime forum where the data was being sold. But …
The number of increasingly fascinating, yet powerful applications of computer vision is making it one of the areas to watch in data science. With an estimated Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 19.6% forecasted between 2023 – 2026 and a market size shy of $17 billion by the end of 2023 [1], the …
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