Artificial Intelligence

Astronomers using AI to prepare for ton of data from new telescopes

It’s a problem that will be repeated in other places over the coming decade. As astronomers construct giant cameras to image the...

Last summer was the hottest in 2,000 years. Here’s how we know.

It’s taken several decades of work and hundreds of scientists to develop the records that researchers used for this new paper, said...

This grim but revolutionary DNA technology is changing how we respond to mass disasters

Meanwhile, after the fires, Filipino families faced particularly stark barriers to getting information about financial support, government assistance, housing, and DNA testing....

How cuddly robots could change dementia care

That’s how I discovered the Golden Pup from Joy for All. It cocks its head. It sports a jaunty red bandana. It...

GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites

The new tokenizer has 200,000 tokens in total, and about 25% are in non-English languages, says Deedy Das, an AI investor at...

To optimize guide-dog robots, first listen to the visually impaired

What features does a robotic guide dog need? Ask the blind, say the authors of an award-winning paper. Led by researchers at the...

The Download: Cuddly robots to help dementia, and what Daedalus taught us

Enter cuddly robots. The most famous are Golden Pup, a robotic golden retriever toy that cocks its head, barks and wags its...

Global Governance: Goals and Lessons for AI

As AI policy conversations expanded last year, they started to be punctuated by repeated references to unexpected abbreviations. Not the usual short names...

Large language models can’t effectively recognize users’ motivation, but can support behavior change for those ready to act

Large language model-based chatbots have the potential to promote healthy changes in behavior. But researchers from the ACTION Lab at the University of...

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