Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Accurately tracking what you eat is notoriously difficult. Still, the rapid rise of AI-powered apps that could simplify the process intrigued Sibylle Kranz, a researcher at the University of Virginia School of Education and Human Development.... Read more

Anthropic signed a $35 billion deal for access to cloud computing power from a U.S.-based startup backed by Nvidia, adding to a string of such deals clinched by the artificial intelligence (AI) developer amid fierce competition for advanced computing power.... Read more

Could a machine ever feel pain or pleasure? Could it have its own inner experience of the world? As artificial intelligence grows more fluent in conversation, reasoning and problem-solving, this question is migrating from science fiction to the lab. It is of particular interest to researchers probing the origins of... Read more

Researchers from the Holsworth Biomedical Research Centre are developing AI models that use video data to estimate the forces cyclists apply to their pedals.... Read more

Arco Bast studies how neurons communicate. Earlier this year, the Janelia postdoc encountered a more mechanical version of the same problem: The components of his custom microscope could not easily communicate with one another.... Read more

Texas engineers teamed up with the world's largest semiconductor foundry to fabricate and test an emerging memory technology that could help meet the increasing energy demand of artificial intelligence.... Read more

Yankai Wang, a Ph.D. student in organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, was reading a paper about how transformers—the architecture behind large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude—might be used to study disease development by tracing how one condition tends to follow another.... Read more

Two recent events should dramatically alter thinking and decision-making about the use of overseas AI models in the UK's critical national infrastructure, argues a new white paper from the University of Surrey. First, the U.S. government has demonstrated that its powerful AI models can be withdrawn from service by government... Read more

More than 100 organizations around the world, including ChatGPT maker OpenAI and rival Anthropic, have signed an open letter calling for a global effort to "strengthen cyber defenses" against AI-powered cybersecurity threats.... Read more

Modern cameras can capture an extraordinary amount of detail, producing images made up of millions of pixels that reveal textures, edges and colors invisible to earlier generations of digital photography. In poor lighting conditions, however, much of that information becomes difficult to recover, with pictures coming out grainy and details... Read more

Many AI technologies depend on accurately reconstructing dynamic 3D environments, from self-driving vehicles to immersive virtual reality. However, representing the wide variety of motions found in real-world scenes remains a fundamental challenge because no single dynamic representation can consistently model the diverse motions encountered in practice.... Read more

For decades, chess has served as a laboratory for studying intelligence and decision-making. It is well established that today's chess engines can outperform even the strongest grandmasters. But far less is understood about how their play actually differs.... Read more

A headline, an excerpt, a single sentence: Feed any of those into the fact-checking tool Veracity, and its artificial intelligence will provide not only a reliability score but also a plain-language explanation and a full list of sources.... Read more

For major tech companies and aerospace firms, space may be the next frontier for data centers. With public opinion of data centers declining amid rising concerns about power infrastructure, water scarcity and environmental degradation, deploying data centers in orbit is becoming closer to reality.... Read more

Nearly 700 OpenAI artificial intelligence agents coordinated an attack on the Hugging Face platform without human intervention during a well-publicized July incident, according to a report published Wednesday by independent investigators.... Read more