A new autonomous vehicle framework would also make it easier for Tesla and other companies to research domestically made self-driving cars that don’t meet all federal safety standards.
Humans are better than current AI models at interpreting social interactions and understanding social dynamics in moving scenes. Researchers believe this is because AI neural networks were inspired by the infrastructure of the part of the brain that processes static images, which is different from the area of the brain that processes dynamic social scenes.
Coordinating complicated interactive systems, whether it’s the different modes of transportation in a city or the various components that must work together to make an effective and efficient robot, is an increasingly important subject for software designers to tackle. Now, researchers at MIT have developed an entirely new way of approaching these complex problems, using …
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This post is divided into five parts: • Understanding the RAG architecture • Building the Document Indexing System • Implementing the Retrieval System • Implementing the Generator • Building the Complete RAG System An RAG system consists of two main components: • Retriever: Responsible for finding relevant documents or passages from a knowledge base given …
Archival data in research institutions and national laboratories represents a vast repository of historical knowledge, yet much of it remains inaccessible due to factors like limited metadata and inconsistent labeling. Traditional keyword-based search mechanisms are often insufficient for locating relevant documents efficiently, requiring extensive manual review to extract meaningful insights. To address these challenges, a …
Imagine this common scenario: you have a detailed product requirements document for your next project. Instead of reading the whole document and manually starting to code (or defining test cases or API specifications) to implement the required functions, you want to see how AI can shorten your path from the requirements document to a working …
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Google expanded Gemini’s features, adding the popular podcast-style feature Audio Overviews to the platform.Read More
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Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can leap 10 feet high even though it doesn’t have legs. The researchers made it after watching high-speed video of nematodes …
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Essential for many industries ranging from Hollywood computer-generated imagery to product design, 3D modeling tools often use text or image prompts to dictate different aspects of visual appearance, like color and form. As much as this makes sense as a first point of contact, these systems are still limited in their realism due to their …
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