ChatGPT gained one million users in five days, sparking interest in AI. Foundation models are key to understanding generative AI's capabilities and applications.
Ministers halt funding for AI cancer tech in England, risking longer waiting times and patient deaths. Radiotherapy contouring crucial for effective treatment and minimizing damage to healthy tissues.
OpenAI partners with SoftBank to achieve 'artificial super intelligence' surpassing human capabilities, raising $40bn in the largest startup funding round ever. The collaboration aims to advance AI research towards AGI, emphasizing the necessity of significant computing power.
Authors including Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Mosse, and Val McDermid urge UK government to hold Meta accountable for using copyrighted books in AI training. They request Lisa Nandy to summon Meta executives to parliament.
MIT's Pattie Maes awarded 2025 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award for human-computer interaction contributions, advocating for human-centered AI integration. Maes' pioneering work in software agents and wearable devices shapes today's online experience, emphasizing ethical design and human experience enhancement.
Serbian college student Ana Trišović credits MIT OpenCourseWare with transforming her career, leading her to become a research scientist at MIT's FutureTech lab. Trišović's journey from learning Data Analytics with Python to studying AI democratization showcases the impact of open learning resources on her interdisciplinary research.
H&M introduces AI ‘twins’ of models for marketing, sparking debate on exploitation in fashion industry. Chief creative officer ensures human-centric approach remains unchanged despite AI integration.
Parents and teachers are preparing children for the future with generative artificial intelligence, despite age restrictions on tools like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. Guardian readers share their strategies and reasons for introducing AI education to the youngest learners.
Adam Kucharski, a renowned epidemiologist, delves into the importance of evidence in the age of AI and social media. In his new book, he explores how our understanding of 'proof' is evolving in a world where information and trust are paramount.
Venture capital-backed $1bn companies like Skydio are transforming warfare with AI-powered drones. These futuristic weapons could challenge traditional military manufacturers on the battlefield.
Automation has made mundane tasks less boring, but at what cost? John Gray's eco-nihilism perspective challenges the benefits of technology, even calling anaesthetised dentistry an "unmixed blessing."
New AI model combines CNNs, Transformers, and morphological feature extractors for improved visual recognition accuracy up to 87.89%. CNNs capture details, morphological module highlights critical features, and multi-head attention models global relationships.
The blog post discusses Nadaraya-Watson kernel regression using a radial basis function kernel, emphasizing the importance of normalizing predictor values. The key equation for NW kernel regression involves a weighted average of target y values based on the RBF kernel function values.
AlphaFold, from Google DeepMind, uses AI to predict protein structures, revolutionizing drug discovery and solving biological mysteries. The technology has already won a Nobel prize and made significant advancements in understanding complex structures like the nuclear pore complex.
Hamiltonian mechanics reframes dynamics through energy, now used in cutting-edge generative AI. It splits acceleration into momentum/position flows, revealing hidden geometric structure.