AI Uses Energy, AI Saves Energy: The International Energy Agency examines the energy costs and potential savings of the AI boom
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AI Uses Energy, AI Saves Energy: The International Energy Agency examines the energy costs and potential savings of the AI boom

AI’s thirst for energy is growing, but the technology also could help produce huge energy savings over the next five to 10 years, according to a recent report.

June 4, 20253 min read
AI Insights from Big Pharma: Johnson & Johnson reveals its revised AI strategy
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AI Insights from Big Pharma: Johnson & Johnson reveals its revised AI strategy

The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company by revenue shed light on its AI strategy.

May 7, 20252 min read
Chatbot Use Creates Emotional Bonds: ChatGPT may ease loneliness but increase dependence, studies suggest
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Chatbot Use Creates Emotional Bonds: ChatGPT may ease loneliness but increase dependence, studies suggest

A pair of papers investigate how increasingly human-like chatbots affect users’ emotions.

April 2, 20252 min read
Designer Materials: MatterGen, a diffusion model that designs new materials with specified properties
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Designer Materials: MatterGen, a diffusion model that designs new materials with specified properties

Materials that have specific properties are essential to progress in critical technologies like solar cells and batteries. A machine learning model designs new materials to order.

March 19, 20252 min read
Designer Materials: MatterGen, a diffusion model that designs new materials with specified properties
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Designer Materials: MatterGen, a diffusion model that designs new materials with specified properties

Materials that have specific properties are essential to progress in critical technologies like solar cells and batteries. A machine learning model designs new materials to order.

March 19, 20252 min read
Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery
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Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery

An AI agent synthesizes novel scientific research hypotheses. It's already making an impact in biomedicine.

March 19, 20253 min read
Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery
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Science Research Proposals Made to Order: AI Co-Scientist, an agent that generates research hypotheses, aiding drug discovery

An AI agent synthesizes novel scientific research hypotheses. It's already making an impact in biomedicine.

March 19, 20253 min read
Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery
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Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery

To date, efforts to decode what people are thinking from their brain waves often relied on electrodes implanted in the cortex. New work used devices outside the head to pick up brain signals that enabled an AI system, as a subject typed, to accurately guess what they were typing.

February 26, 20253 min read
Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery
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Reading Minds, No Brain Implant Required: Brain2Qwerty, a system that decodes thoughts using brain waves without surgery

To date, efforts to decode what people are thinking from their brain waves often relied on electrodes implanted in the cortex. New work used devices outside the head to pick up brain signals that enabled an AI system, as a subject typed, to accurately guess what they were typing.

February 26, 20253 min read
Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training
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Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training

Harvard University amassed a huge new text corpus for training machine learning models.

January 8, 20252 min read
Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training
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Massively More Training Text: Harvard unveils a million-book corpus for AI training

Harvard University amassed a huge new text corpus for training machine learning models.

January 8, 20252 min read
Albert Gu: More learning, less data
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Albert Gu: More learning, less data

Building a foundation model takes tremendous amounts of data. In the coming year, I hope we’ll enable models to learn more from less data.

January 1, 20253 min read
Albert Gu: More learning, less data
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Albert Gu: More learning, less data

Building a foundation model takes tremendous amounts of data. In the coming year, I hope we’ll enable models to learn more from less data.

January 1, 20253 min read
When LLMs Propose Research Ideas: Stanford study finds AI matches human experts at writing research proposals
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When LLMs Propose Research Ideas: Stanford study finds AI matches human experts at writing research proposals

How do agents based on large language models compare to human experts when it comes to proposing machine learning research? Pretty well, according to one study.

December 18, 20243 min read
When LLMs Propose Research Ideas: Stanford study finds AI matches human experts at writing research proposals
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When LLMs Propose Research Ideas: Stanford study finds AI matches human experts at writing research proposals

How do agents based on large language models compare to human experts when it comes to proposing machine learning research? Pretty well, according to one study.

December 18, 20243 min read

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