The Incredible Physics of Simone Biles’ Yurchenko Double Pike
Calculating angular velocity and the moment of inertia isn’t quite as hard as competing in the 2024 summer Olympics gymnastics tournament—but it’s pretty darn tough.
Analysis reveals that most major open- and closed-source LLMs tend to lean left when asked politically charged questions
When 24 different state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) were administered a battery of different tests designed to reveal political orientation, a significant majority produced responses rated as left-of-center, according to a study published July 31, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by David Rozado from Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand.
OpenAI launches experimental GPT-4o Long Output model with 16X token capacity
It is a variation on its signature GPT-4o model from May, but with a massively extended output size: up to 64,000 tokens of output.Read More
The Affordable Connectivity Program Died—and Thousands of Households Have Already Lost Their Internet
The ACP provided affordable internet connectivity to low-income Americans. Since it expired in May, around 100,000 Charter subscribers have had to pull the plug.
Researchers introduce knitted furniture
Yuichi Hirose has a dream—a dream that someday everyone will have access to a machine capable of knitting furniture.
Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself
Meta’s AI Studio will let users build virtual characters, with a few limitations.
Shape-shifting ‘transformer bots’ inspired by origami
Inspired by the paper-folding art of origami, engineers have discovered a way to make a single plastic cubed structure transform into more than 1,000 configurations using only three active motors.
Phantom data could show copyright holders if their work is in AI training data
Inspired by the map makers of the 20th Century, Imperial researchers have demonstrated a new way to identify copyright holders’ work in LLMs.
Addressing the conundrum of imposter syndrome and LLMs
By using LLMs as aids rather than crutches, we can harness their potential without falling into the trap of imposter syndrome.Read More
Generative AI pioneers the future of child language learning
Researchers create a storybook generation system for personalized vocabulary learning.