Artificial neural networks learn better when they spend time not learning at all
Researchers discuss how mimicking sleep patterns of the human brain in artificial neural networks may help mitigate the threat of catastrophic forgetting in the latter, boosting their utility across a spectrum of research interests.
‘Butterfly bot’ is fastest swimming soft robot yet
Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers have developed an energy-efficient soft robot that can swim more than four times faster than previous swimming soft robots. The robots are called ‘butterfly bots,’ because their swimming motion resembles the way a person’s arms move when they are swimming the butterfly stroke.
Unbabel provides real-time, AI-driven multilingual support for live customer service agents
Unbabel has partnered with Ada to provide multilingual assistance to live customer service agents and language capabilities to Ada chatbots.Read More
Snorkel dives into data labeling and foundation AI models
Snorkel AI today announced a preview of its new capabilities to help users adapt foundation AI models for enterprise use cases.Read More
Stanford debuts first AI benchmark to help understand LLMs
Today, Stanford HAI announced the first AI benchmark aimed at improving the transparency of large language models (LLMs).Read More
Astera Labs raises $150M for chips that deliver AI in the cloud
Astera Labs provides chips for connecting AI systems in the cloud, and today it has raised $150 million at a $3.15 billion valuation.Read More
Nvidia enters the text-to-image battle with eDiff-I, takes on DALL-E, Imagen
Nvidia’s eDiff-I text-to-image model is a next-gen generative AI content creation tool that uses a new method of text-to-image synthesis.Read More
Here’s How Bad a Twitter Mega-Breach Would Be
Elon Musk laid off half the staff, and mass resignations seem likely. If nobody’s there to protect the fort, what’s the worst that could happen?
The Director of ‘Pentiment’ Wants You to Know How His Characters Ate
When Josh Sawyer created his video game about 16th-century Bavaria, he set out to capture the feeling of that world, right down to the food on the table.