Archive: April 2016

Speed comparison between attention variants. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.16381 Most languages use word position and sentence structure to extract meaning. For example, "The cat sat on the box," is not the same as "The box was on the cat." Over a long text, like a financial document or a novel, the syntax of these words likely evolves. Similarly, a person might be tracking variables in a piece of code or following instructions that have c

Anyone whose phone number is just one digit off from a popular restaurant or community resource has long borne the burden of either screening or redirecting misdials. But now, AI chatbots could exacerbate this inconvenience by accidentally giving out private numbers when users ask for businesses’ contact information. Apparently, the AI helper that Meta created for WhatsApp may even be trained to tell white lies when users try to correct the dissemination o

Futurism For years, human rights monitors have been outraged at the selective policing of content on Meta’s social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The company’s latest enforcement action is hardly shocking at this point, but it provides a crystal clear example of the kinds of things Meta will — and won’t — allow on its apps. In a bizarre case of digital censorship, Meta’s content moderation system stepped in to stop a local theatre in Barcelon

Google’s products and services have been flooded with AI features over the past couple of years, but smart home has been largely spared until now. The company’s plans to replace Assistant are moving forward with a big Google Home reset. We’ve been told over and over that generative AI will do incredible things when given enough data, and here’s the test. There’s a new Home app with Gemini intelligence throughout the experience, updated subscriptions, and e

Joel Angel Juárez/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t trust human doctors, but he does trust AI chatbots — and so should you, he’s using his authority as chief medical spokesperson in the US government to tell the public. The crux of the health secretary’s recent remarks during his “fireside chat” with vice president JD Vance at the Make America Healthy Again Conference on Tuesday was that AI models are now “better inform

Published on October 6, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Thomas Estimbre / 01net.com Mistral AI unveiled a brand-new artificial intelligence model, Mistral Large 4. Nicknamed “Le Chonk” by the French startup, the AI model must prove that Europe can compete with ChatGPT, Claude and Chinese AIs. Mistral AI is bringing out the heavy artillery. This Tuesday, October 6, the French startup unveiled Mistral Large 4, a new artificial intelligence model nickna

Shutterstock / Futurism In the American psyche, data centers have become so reviled that big tech can’t even pay residents life changing money to welcome the facilities into their backyards. That’s not an exaggeration: voters in the former coal-mining community of Hazle Township, Pennsylvania are mobilizing en masse against a massive Amazon Web Services facility that would come along with a $10,000 direct cash dividend to every resident. That’s according t

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Regulations limit both the intensity and frequency of whip use during horse racing. Nevertheless, compliance is currently verified manually after each race. Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed an innovative system combining high-resolution audio recording with artificial intelligence for automatic detection of whip sounds. The work is published in the journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intellig

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang insists the US tech giant is going to make 'a huge investment in OpenAI' Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has insisted the US tech giant will make a "huge" investment in OpenAI and dismissed as "nonsense" reports that he is unhappy with the generative AI star. Huang made the remarks late Saturday in Taipei after The Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI had been put on ice. Nvidia

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Anthropic said the new agent is meant to cater to professionals and small businesses to help them with automating and managing tasks. The company is making a distinction from personal agents such as Instinct, by noting that Duet isn’t good at handling errands or booking tickets, and it can’t show you its browser use as it happens. Instead, Duet can build a daily briefing for its users, create dashboards, or suggest actions based on the user’s data. Like ot

Perplexity now has its own always-on AI agent Manuel Uth Nov 6, 2026 Perplexity now has its own AI agent that runs around the clock and handles work tasks on its own. While Perplexity Computer executes one-off assignments, the new Teammates stay active and work through ongoing projects independently. Each Teammate runs on its own virtual machine with a desktop and browser. Users track progress through dedicated threads in the Perplexity app and can interac

Businesses adapting these models for specialized fields, such as law and finance, typically get around this by fine-tuning general models. However, that often requires hiring internal research teams or relying on expensive consultants, commonly known as forward-deployed engineers (FDEs). Trajectory, a startup founded about a year ago by three Stanford classmates with experience at Google DeepMind and Apple, wants to automate that process, allowing AI model

Will DeepSeek change its answer if only irrelevant tokens are added before the same piece of code? Author | Li Na Editor | Cen Feng 01Why does DeepSeek sometimes answer correctly and sometimes incorrectly?For the same code-completion question, adding just a few irrelevant tokens before it may cause DeepSeek to change its answer.(For details, see:ByteDance Discovers a Hidden DeepSeek Bug; Add a Few Spaces and the Model Fails)This is the phenomenon observed

We’ve fine-tuned the 774M parameter GPT-2 language model using human feedback for various tasks, successfully matching the preferences of the external human labelers, though those preferences did not always match our own. Specifically, for summarization tasks the labelers preferred sentences copied wholesale from the input (we’d only asked them to ensure accuracy), so our models learned to copy. Summarization required 60k human labels; simpler tasks which