88 m. ago A new way to measure uncertainty provides an important step toward confidence in AI model training

It's obvious when a dog has been poorly trained. It doesn't respond properly to commands. It pushes boundaries and behaves unpredictably. The same is true with a poorly trained artificial intelligence (AI) model. Only with AI, it's not always easy to identify what went wrong with the training.

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1 hour ago Semiconductor nanowires capture diffuse sunlight to split water and store energy as hydrogen

A U of A engineering researcher is using sunlight and semiconductor catalysts to produce hydrogen by splitting apart water molecules into their constituent elements.

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1 hour ago The ongoing effect of United States tariffs on the model train industry

The ongoing effect of United States tariffs on the model train industry  trains.com

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2 h. ago Anthropic is launching a new program to study AI ‘model welfare’

Could future AIs be “conscious,” and experience the world similarly to the way humans do? There’s no strong evidence that they will, but Anthropic isn’t ruling out the possibility. On Thursday, the AI lab announced that it has started a research program to investigate — and prepare to navigate — what it’s calling “model welfare.” […]

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4 h. ago AI model of language in the brain captures both how neurons are arranged and how they function

Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function. For example, language studies have found that there are clusters of neurons that seem to specialize in verbs and others that focus specifically on nouns, however researchers aren't sure just how these functional groups form.

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6 h. ago New system quantifies language model personalities through linguistic analysis

Large language models (LLMs) are at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and have been widely used for conversational interactions. However, assessing the personality of a given LLM remains a significant challenge.

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7 h. ago Algorithm can make AI responses increasingly reliable with less computational overhead

ChatGPT and alike often amaze us with the accuracy of their answers, but unfortunately, they also repeatedly give us cause for doubt. The main issue with powerful AI response engines (artificial intelligence) is that they provide us with perfect answers and obvious nonsense with the same ease. One of the major challenges lies in how the large language models (LLMs) underlying AI deal with uncertainty.

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7 h. ago This tool estimates how much electricity your chatbot messages consume

Ever wonder how much electricity you’re using when you prompt, or thank, an AI model? Hugging Face engineer Julien Delavande did, so he built a tool to help arrive at the answer. AI models consume energy each time they’re run. They’re run on GPUs and specialized chips that need a lot of power to carry […]

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9 h. ago Adobe releases new Firefly image generation models and a redesigned Firefly web app

Adobe on Thursday launched the latest iteration of its Firefly family of image generation AI models, a model for generating vectors, and a redesigned web app that houses all its AI models, plus some from its competitors. There’s also a mobile app for Firefly in the works. The new Firefly Image Model 4, Adobe says, […]

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22 h. ago Public's tip leads to capture of Iranian man crossing US border from Canada, US Border Patrol says

Public's tip leads to capture of Iranian man crossing US border from Canada, US Border Patrol says  WZZM13.com

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23 h. ago Washington’s Model Toxics Control Act is a success worth defending | Opinion

Washington’s Model Toxics Control Act is a success worth defending | Opinion  Bellingham Herald

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25 h. ago Mom Suing School That Suspended Her Son Over Dr. Pepper Cans Arranged in the Shape of a Rifle

Riley Grunden is suing Missouri's Mountain View-Birch Tree R-III School District over the suspension her son received for posting a photo of Dr. Pepper cans arranged in the shape of rifle. The post Mom Suing School That Suspended Her Son Over Dr. Pepper Cans Arranged in the Shape of a Rifle appeared first on Breitbart.

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25 h. ago AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures

Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.

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31 h. ago Froda secures $23M Series B for its debt financing platform for SMEs

Swedish Fintech startup Froda has secured a $22.7 million (€20m) Series B round led by Incore Invest, also based in Sweden. The move bucks the trend of a slight slowdown in investments into fintech, plus a further confirmation of the long-term trend towards the ’embedded finance’ model.  Largely operating in northern European countries from Finland […]

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32 h. ago Contributor: There's no neutral language to describe horrific actions

Contributor: There's no neutral language to describe horrific actions  Los Angeles Times

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33 h. ago Columbia Journalism Review Faces the Kind of Crisis It Usually Covers

The publication is now trying to find a successful business model without its top editor, who was abruptly fired last week.

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33 h. ago Word of the Week: The papal 'conclave' is secretive. The word's origin explains why

The word itself predates Christianity, but the conclave with its secretive deliberations and ancient trappings still captures the public's curiosity.

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46 h. ago A Chinese AI video startup appears to be blocking politically sensitive images

A China-based startup, Sand AI, has released an openly licensed video-generating AI model that’s garnered praise from entrepreneurs like Microsoft Research Asia founding director Kai-Fu Lee. But Sand AI appears to be censoring images that might raise the ire of Chinese regulators from the hosted version of the model, according to TechCrunch’s testing. Earlier this […]

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47 h. ago Character.AI unveils AvatarFX, an AI video model to create lifelike chatbots

Character.AI, a leading platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, unveiled its forthcoming video generation model, AvatarFX, on Tuesday. Available in closed beta, the model animates the platform’s characters in a variety of styles and voices, from human-like characters to 2D animal cartoons. AvatarFX distinguishes itself from competitors like OpenAI’s Sora because it isn’t […]

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47 h. ago Video captures New York grandmother, children narrowly avoiding manhole explosion

A New York woman and two young children are seen on video narrowly avoiding a manhole explosion as they were walking along a sidewalk in Poughkeepsie.

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