AI/ML News

Engineers design tiny batteries for powering cell-sized robots

A zinc-air microbattery could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as…

2 years ago

Flexible multi-task computation in recurrent neural networks relies on dynamical motifs, study shows

Cognitive flexibility, the ability to rapidly switch between different thoughts and mental concepts, is a highly advantageous human capability. This…

2 years ago

This Mpox Outbreak Isn’t Like the Last One

The strain of mpox behind the current global health emergency is believed to be up to 10 times deadlier than…

2 years ago

Robot planning tool accounts for human carelessness

A new algorithm may make robots safer by making them more aware of human inattentiveness. In computerized simulations of packaging…

2 years ago

‘AI Scientist’ model designed to conduct scientific research autonomously

A team of AI researchers at Sakana AI, in Japan, working with colleagues from the University of Oxford and the…

2 years ago

Anthropic’s new Claude prompt caching will save developers a fortune

Anthropic's prompt caching lets users save prompts and call these up for later sessions with additional context for a lower…

2 years ago

A Single Iranian Hacker Group Targeted Both Presidential Campaigns, Google Says

APT42, which is believed to work for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, targeted about a dozen people associated with both Trump’s…

2 years ago

Experiments reveal LLMs develop their own understanding of reality as their language abilities improve

Ask a large language model (LLM) like GPT-4 to smell a rain-soaked campsite, and it'll politely decline. Ask the same…

2 years ago

ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode First Impressions: Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy

The new voice feature from OpenAI for ChatGPT is often entertaining and will even do a Trump impression. It likely…

2 years ago

Delivery robots’ green credentials make them more attractive to consumers

The smaller carbon footprint, or wheel print, of automatic delivery robots can encourage consumers to use them when ordering food,…

2 years ago