Archive: February 2020

Instruction fine-tuning approaches — fine-tuning large language models on tasks described via instructions — have shown promising results in improving zero- and few-shot learning performance through fine-tuning objectives, task sampling strategies, instruction-tuning benchmarks, training datasets and so on. Yet there is limited understanding with regard to the performance trade-offs involved in the various choices made during the instruction-tuning process

This image provided by the Allen Institute on April 8, 2025, shows a digital representation of neurons in a section of a mouse's brain, part of a project to create the largest map to date of brain wiring and function, in Seattle, Wash. Credit: Forrest Collman/Allen Institute via AP Thanks to a mouse watching clips from "The Matrix," scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date—a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as th

Optical images of the surveyed area (A) oblique photography (B) top view with information annotated. Credit: AIR A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel method to generate highly detailed three-dimensional (3D) city models using radar data, addressing long-standing challenges in urban mapping. By merging artificial intelligence (AI) with architectural geometry, the new

For this study, writing styles in digitized manuscripts were analyzed using BiNet, a previously developed deep neural network for detection of handwritten ink-trace patterns. By combining writing styles with carbon-14 dates of manuscripts using artificial intelligence, the date-prediction model Enoch is able to produce an accurate date for the manuscript. Credit: Maruf Dhali, University of Groningen Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hu

DNA, which has a double-helix structure, can have many genetic mutations and variations. Credit: NIH Scientists at Northwestern University have developed the largest open-access resource of its kind to help researchers shave off months of early-stage drug development time by allowing them to better understand diseases and find potential treatments. Called SOAR (Spatial transcriptOmics Analysis Resource), the now-live platform is a one-stop shop that helps

A marine iguana on Fernandina Island. Credit: Amy MacLeod Nearly 14,000 volunteers took part in the citizen science project Iguanas from Above, helping to count endangered Galapagos marine iguanas through an online survey—and in doing so, contributed to the preservation of this unique lizard species. Every aerial image of the iguana colonies captured by drones was reviewed by at least 20 independent participants—a total of more than 1.3 million inputs, exp

Public service employees don’t necessarily benefit from remote work. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The University of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology today released the results of its latest UCI-OC Poll, shedding light on the changing nature of work in Orange County two years after the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted from June 20 to July 1, 2025, the survey of 800 Orange County adults offers insights into remote work prefer

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty Images Did Nick Park wake up and put on the wrong trousers this morning? In a recent interview with Radio Times, the creator of the beloved claymation series “Wallace and Gromit” said his animation studio, Aardman, would “embrace” AI — albeit in a “cautious” manner. “When ‘Toy Story’ came out [in 1995], we thought, ‘How long have we got?’ But we’ve managed to survive CGI,

Gaston Paris / Contributor A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language models “are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity” — that level of complexity being, crucially, pretty low. The paper, which has not been peer reviewed, was written by Vishal Sikka, a former CTO at the German software giant SAP, and his son Varin Sikka. Sikka sen

Getty / Futurism The AI industry has been pouring untold resources into building out enormous data centers across the world. The plants are immensely resource-hungry, sucking up huge amounts of fresh water to cool ripping-hot computer hardware. They’re turning into a massive strain on the electric grid, forcing some utility operators to enact rolling blackouts during heat waves and cold weather. The issue reached a fever pitch after the Washington Post rep

Everything is visible from the menu bar Opening the menu bar reveals an island with a list of sessions. Each has a clear status: "writing code," "reading files," "waiting for you," "complete." If an agent is requesting permission for a command, the "Allow" and "Deny" buttons are right on the card: one click, and the agent proceeds, while you stay where you were. Questions with options can also be answered from the menu bar. Lumio understands eleven agents:

Pillar I: An action plan to support the private AI sectorAt its heart, the strategy is a full-throated endorsement of the private sector. The first move is to take a buzzsaw to the regulatory frameworks of the past, with the document explicitly targeting the “onerous” approach of the previous administration.The philosophy is simple: get out of the way and let innovators innovate. According to US Vice President JD Vance, smothering the technology with rules

Published on April 1, 2026 at 12:33 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © 01net OpenAI closed a record funding round of 122 billion dollars, raising its valuation to 852 billion dollars. According to the startup, the funds raised should help it « build the very infrastructure of artificial intelligence » and increase its computing power. OpenAI has just closed a massive new funding round of 122 billion dollars. This new funding round raises the valuation of the startup, o

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Taylor Hill / Getty Images Here’s one job we won’t be sorry to see get automated with AI. According to a new scoop from the The Wall Street Journal, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO AI agent to help him do his job. The AI agent helps Zuckerberg get information faster, such as by retrieving answers for him that he would typically have to go through layers of people to get, per the