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AI-Augmented Predictions: LLM Assistants Improve Human Forecasting Accuracy

…results suggest that access to an LLM assistant, even a biased one, can be a helpful decision aid in cognitively demanding tasks where the answer is not known at the time of interaction.

February 12, 2024
AI-Augmented Predictions: LLM Assistants Improve Human Forecasting Accuracy
How the world of recycling is about to be transformed

7 February 2024 - The world’s biggest builder of recycling plants says it will retrofit thousands of waste plants with AI tools to better sort recycling

February 7, 2024
How the world of recycling is about to be transformed
CERN unleashes powerful robot-dog to inspect nuclear radiation zones

Introducing CERN's latest breakthrough, the CERNquadbot, a four-legged robot revolutionizing exploration in cluttered and hazardous environments.

February 6, 2024
CERN unleashes powerful robot-dog to inspect nuclear radiation zones
Why China is betting big on chiplets

By connecting several less-advanced chips into one, Chinese companies could circumvent the sanctions set by the US government.…Because of their potential to support continued growth in the post–Moore’s Law era, MIT Technology Review chose chiplets as one of the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2024

February 6, 2024
Why China is betting big on chiplets
Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World?

Advanced scanning and AI to virtually unroll the firewood-looking scrolls, flatten them, and decipher from the detections of minuscule remnants of ink

February 5, 2024
Can AI Unlock the Secrets of the Ancient World?
Inconvenient facts about LFP batteries

At the core of battery cathode chemistries for electric vehicles, LFP and NMC stand as the mainstays, each offering distinct attributes…While LFP retains its place in the diverse array of battery chemistries, the narrative of its absolute dominance may require reconsideration. 

February 2, 2024
Inconvenient facts about LFP batteries
World’s first AI child unveiled in Beijing by award-winning Chinese scientist who left US for China

The AI entity has been unveiled at an exhibition by the Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence. Called Tong Tong, or Little Girl, she can assign herself tasks, learn autonomously and explore her environment.

February 2, 2024
World’s first AI child unveiled in Beijing by award-winning Chinese scientist who left US for China
This robot can tidy a room without any help

A new system helps robots navigate homes they’ve never seen before with a little help from open-source AI models.

February 1, 2024
This robot can tidy a room without any help
MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device

Google introduces a novel approach with the potential for rapid text-to-image generation on-device…it can run in half a second to generate a 512x512 high-quality image. 

January 31, 2024
MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device
Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation

OpenAI is developing a blueprint for evaluating the risk that a large language model (LLM) could aid someone in creating a biological threat. 

January 31, 2024
Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation