Tech giants warn window to monitor AI reasoning is closing, urge action
Artificial intelligence is advancing at a dizzying speed. Like many new technologies, it offers significant benefits but also poses safety risks. Recognizing the potential dangers, leading researchers from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and a coalition of companies and nonprofit groups have come together to call for more to be done to monitor how AI systems "think."
Category: Computer Sciences
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:40:13 EDT
When the stakes are high, do machine learning models make fair decisions?
Machine learning is an integral part of high-stakes decision-making in a broad swath of human-computer interactions. You apply for a job. You submit a loan application. Algorithms determine who advances and who is declined.
Category: Consumer & Gadgets
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:25:54 EDT
Can AI really code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering
Imagine a future where artificial intelligence quietly shoulders the drudgery of software development: refactoring tangled code, migrating legacy systems, and hunting down race conditions, so that human engineers can devote themselves to architecture, design, and the genuinely novel problems still beyond a machine's reach.
Category: Software
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:20:04 EDT
AI 'coach' helps language models choose between text and code to solve problems
Large language models (LLMs) excel at using textual reasoning to understand the context of a document and provide a logical answer about its contents. But these same LLMs often struggle to correctly answer even the simplest math problems.
Category: Computer Sciences
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:40:08 EDT
Anyone can now train a robot: New tool makes teaching skills hands-on and easy
Teaching a robot new skills used to require coding expertise. But a new generation of robots could potentially learn from just about anyone.
Category: Robotics
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:36:16 EDT
Robots now grow and repair themselves by consuming parts from other machines
Today's robots are stuck—their bodies are usually closed systems that can neither grow nor self-repair, nor adapt to their environment. Now, scientists at Columbia University have developed robots that can physically "grow," "heal," and improve themselves by integrating material from their environment or from other robots.
Category: Robotics
Published: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:00:12 EDT
New research reveals AI has a confidence problem
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes lose confidence when answering questions and abandon correct answers, according to a new study by researchers at Google DeepMind and University College London.
Category: Machine learning & AI
Published: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:54:19 EDT
Robot hand 'feels' pain and ignores harmless touch with new sensory system
In the midst of the co-development of artificial intelligence and robotic advancements, developing technologies that enable robots to efficiently perceive and respond to their surroundings like humans has become a crucial task. In this context, Korean researchers are gaining attention for newly implementing an artificial sensory nervous system that mimics the sensory nervous system of living organisms without the need for separate complex software or circuitry. This breakthrough technology is expected to be applied in fields such as in ultra-small robots and robotic prosthetics, where intelligent and energy-efficient responses to external stimuli are essential.
Category: Robotics
Published: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:51:50 EDT
First publicly available Japanese AI dialogue system can speak and listen simultaneously
How do you develop an AI system that perfectly mimics the way humans speak? Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have taken a significant step forward to achieve this. They have created J-Moshi, the first publicly available AI system specifically designed for Japanese conversational patterns.
Category: Robotics
Published: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:50:02 EDT
AI that thinks like us? Researchers unveil new model to predict human behavior
Imagine a self-driving car navigating downtown traffic. To avoid a collision, it must judge whether the pedestrian at the corner is about to cross. Or consider an investment algorithm trading stocks—it needs to anticipate how human investors will react to news before making a move.
Category: Computer Sciences
Published: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:49:23 EDT
New method makes AI language model evaluations faster, fairer, and less costly
Assessing the progress of new AI language models can be as challenging as training them. Stanford researchers offer a new approach.
Category: Machine learning & AI
Published: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:03:37 EDT
What a folding ruler can tell us about neural networks
Deep neural networks are at the heart of artificial intelligence, ranging from pattern recognition to large language and reasoning models like ChatGPT. The principle: during a training phase, the parameters of the network's artificial neurons are optimized in such a way that they can carry out specific tasks, such as autonomously discovering objects or characteristic features in images.
Category: Computer Sciences
Published: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:20:01 EDT
New simulation system generates thousands of training examples for robotic hands and arms
When ChatGPT or Gemini give what seems to be an expert response to your burning questions, you may not realize how much information it relies on to give that reply. Like other popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, these chatbots rely on backbone systems called foundation models that train on billions, or even trillions, of data points.
Category: Robotics
Published: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:10:38 EDT
NVIDIA's new AI tool enables precise editing of 3D scenes and photorealistic images
Over the past years, computer scientists have introduced increasingly sophisticated generative AI models that can produce personalized content following specific inputs or instructions. While image generation models are now widely used, many of them are unpredictable and precisely controlling the images they create remains a challenge.
Category: Computer Sciences
Published: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:30:01 EDT
Beating the AI bottleneck: Communications innovation could markedly improve AI training process
Artificial intelligence (AI) is infamous for its resource-heavy training, but a new study may have found a solution in a novel communications system, called ZEN, that markedly improves the way large language models (LLMs) train.
Category: Machine learning & AI
Published: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:30:01 EDT
Tool devised for detecting AI that scores high on accuracy, low on false accusations
Detecting writing via artificial intelligence is a tricky dance: Doing it right means being effective at identifying it while being careful not to falsely accuse a human of employing it. And few tools strike the right balance.
Category: Computer Sciences
Published: Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:42:04 EDT
Formal guidelines can enable AI to precisely maneuver and position medical needles
Imagine a physician attempting to reach a cancerous nodule deep within a patient's lung—a target the size of a pea, hidden behind a maze of critical blood vessels and airways that shift with every breath. Straying one millimeter off course could puncture a major artery, and falling short could mean missing the cancer entirely, allowing it to spread untreated.
Category: Robotics
Published: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:06:54 EDT
Autonomous gallbladder removal: Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help
A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, responded to and learned from voice commands from the team—like a novice surgeon working with a mentor.
Category: Robotics
Published: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:00:13 EDT
Deep-learning system teaches soft, bio-inspired robots to move using only a single camera
Conventional robots, like those used in industry and hazardous environments, are easy to model and control, but are too rigid to operate in confined spaces and uneven terrain. Soft, bio-inspired robots are far better at adapting to their environments and maneuvering in otherwise inaccessible places.
Category: Robotics
Published: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:20:07 EDT
Can ChatGPT actually 'see' red? New study results are nuanced
ChatGPT works by analyzing vast amounts of text, identifying patterns and synthesizing them to generate responses to users' prompts. Color metaphors like "feeling blue" and "seeing red" are commonplace throughout the English language, and therefore comprise part of the dataset on which ChatGPT is trained.
Category: Computer Sciences
Published: Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:26:36 EDT
Test-time training could lead to LLMs that are better at complex reasoning
For all their impressive capabilities, large language models (LLMs) often fall short when given challenging new tasks that require complex reasoning skills.
Category: Computer Sciences
Published: Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:20:04 EDT
Approach improves how new skills are taught to large language models
Researchers have developed a technique that significantly improves the performance of large language models without increasing the computational power necessary to fine-tune the models. The researchers demonstrated that their technique improves the performance of these models over previous techniques in tasks including commonsense reasoning, arithmetic reasoning, instruction following, code generation, and visual recognition.
Category: Computer Sciences
Published: Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:31:04 EDT
LLMs display different cultural tendencies when responding to queries in English and Chinese, study finds
Large language models (LLMs), such as the model underpinning the functioning of OpenAI's conversational platform ChatGPT, are now widely used by people worldwide to source information and generate content for various purposes.
Category: Consumer & Gadgets
Published: Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:10:01 EDT
From position to meaning: How AI learns to read
The language capabilities of today's artificial intelligence systems are astonishing. We can now engage in natural conversations with systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and many others, with a fluency nearly comparable to that of a human being. Yet we still know very little about the internal processes in these networks that lead to such remarkable results.
Category: Computer Sciences
Published: Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:01 EDT
AI robots fill in for weed killers and farm hands
Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotton field in California, plucking out weeds.
Category: Robotics
Published: Sun, 06 Jul 2025 05:31:07 EDT
Pilot program integrates AI-generated notes with human community notes on X platform
X (formerly Twitter) launched its "Community Notes" program in 2021 to combat misinformation by allowing users to add contextual notes on posts that might be deceptive or lead to misinterpretation. An example would be users labeling an AI-generated video as such, so that other users would not be tricked into believing the event in the video actually occurred. Community notes are rated by the decentralized social media community to determine their usefulness. Only the notes determined useful by raters are shown on the post. X's Community Notes later inspired other platforms to launch similar programs.
Category: Computer Sciences
Published: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:30:01 EDT
Playing games with robots makes people see them as more humanlike
The more we interact with robots, the more human we perceive them to become—according to new research from the University of East Anglia, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Category: Robotics
Published: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:10:04 EDT
Researcher develops 'SpeechSSM,' opening up possibilities for a 24-hour AI voice assistant
Recently, spoken language models (SLMs) have been highlighted as next-generation technology that surpasses the limitations of text-based language models by learning human speech without text to understand and generate linguistic and non-linguistic information.
Category: Hi Tech & Innovation
Published: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:20:26 EDT
AI designs new underwater gliders with shapes inspired by marine animals
Marine scientists have long marveled at how animals like fish and seals swim so efficiently despite having different shapes. Their bodies are optimized for efficient aquatic navigation (or hydrodynamics), so they can exert minimal energy when traveling long distances.
Category: Automotive
Published: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:40:01 EDT
Young children outperform state-of-the-art AI in visual object recognition
As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly grows—a recent UN Trade and Development report projects the global AI market soaring to $4.8 trillion by 2033—the technology seems equipped to handle any task. Driving cars. Analyzing medical images. Making music. Having a conversation.
Category: Machine learning & AI
Published: Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:47:31 EDT