AI/ML News

Amazon’s RAGChecker could change AI as we know it—but you can’t use it yet

Amazon unveils RAGChecker, a new AI tool designed to enhance accuracy in Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems, but its public availability remains…

2 years ago

The Slow-Burn Nightmare of the National Public Data Breach

Social Security numbers, physical addresses, and more—all available online. After months of confusion, leaked information from a background-check firm underscores…

2 years ago

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