Archive: March 2020

Recent research has demonstrated that prompting language models to generate reasoning steps can improve performance on various natural language reasoning tasks. But how to supervise such models? Is it better to employ outcome-based approaches that supervise the final answer, or process-based approaches that supervise the reasoning process itself? In the new paper Solving Math Word Problems With Process- and Outcome-based Feedback, a DeepMind research team

Illustration of a fiber membrane removing heat from an electronic chip through evaporation. Credit: Tianshi Feng Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new cooling technology that could significantly improve the energy efficiency of data centers and high-powered electronics. The technology features a specially engineered fiber membrane that passively removes heat through evaporation. It offers a promising alternative to tradit

Published on July 30, 2025 at 06:30 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © OpenAI Generative AI is a major headache in the world of education. Many students who use it to get their homework done simply copy-paste the answers provided by the bots. There's nothing simpler than taking a photo of the homework and asking the AI to answer it for them. This is an increasingly important issue in the education world, as using a bot causes the student to lose the intellectual reflecti

Apple tightens macOS disk access as AI agents become more powerful Apple plans to introduce additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, citing growing privacy risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous. Users will need to take explicit action to grant apps this permission. The company has not specified a rollout date or detailed how the controls will work. Apple’s APIs include controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Ac

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Alex Wong / Getty Images If you had a hunch that the economy is in the tubes lately, you’re not alone: Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell agrees with you. After his long-anticipated Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Wednesday, Powell told reporters that “job creation is very low, and the job-finding rate for people who are unemployed is very low.” Per Fortune magazine, Powell added that

Tech companies are spending many billions of dollars on massive data center projects across the country amid the ongoing AI boom, but not everyone is willing to sell. An 82-year-old Kentucky farmer and her family rejected an offer of more than $26 million to give over roughly half of their 1,200-acre family farm to an unnamed company planning a massive data center project. “They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we’re not,” Ida Huddleston told the

Credit: International Rice Research Institute An international research team has uncovered the key drivers of rice yield sustainability by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to the world's longest-running triple-cropping experiment. The study, published in Field Crops Research, provided new insights into how climate, crop varieties, and management practices influence long-term rice productivity under growing climate and food security challenges. In this

@DerekFowler(Derek Fowler)Comparison Notes: The Top Page Explaining the Product and the Library Managing Music, Covers, and VideosDesignAIUI0After generating, the situation where you wonder "Where is that song?" often stems not from tool insufficiency but from misunderstanding the role of the screen. The top page is for product explanation, not a shelf for works. The public page equivalent to a shelf is compared based on actual display. The target is WAV A

The number of media files such as photos and videos that could be posted on X (formerly Twitter) has been limited to a maximum of four over the past 10 years. This limit has finally been updated, allowing up to 20 media files to be shared at once per post. X now lets you share 5x more photos and videos per post - 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2026/11/12/x-now-lets-you-share-5x-more-photos-and-videos-per-post/ On November 13, 2026, Jonah Katz, the lead of X's

Credit: AI-generated image A new wave of aviation innovation is taking shape above our cities, where short flights in electric air taxis could complement cars and trains as part of everyday transportation. Known as advanced air mobility (AAM), this emerging industry aims to connect communities more efficiently while reducing emissions and noise. Before these futuristic aircraft can take off, Georgia Tech researchers say there's serious work to do—in the ai

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Researchers, teachers, and mental health professionals alike have spent the past few years reeling as teens and young adults exported their brains to AI chatbots — so it should come as no surprise they’re now using the tech as a crutch to sidestep hard conversations they don’t want to have. New reporting by CNN details the troubling rise of young people using AI models like ChatGPT to ste

Published on March 18, 2026 at 17:48 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Berke Citak (Unsplash) AI companies cannot, for now, train their models with the works of English artists without their permission. The British government has finally retreated from its highly controversial overseas law, which would have reversed the responsibilities — artists would have had to take action to prevent the default exploitation of their works. The UK government is retreating, to the gre

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing educational paradigms and transforming teaching practice thanks to machine learning, natural language processing and personalized tutoring systems. One of the keys is the advanced analysis of students' learning data, which allows teachers to develop individualized teaching strategies. A team led by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has analyzed what leads secondary s

Datasets used to train AI algorithms may underrepresent older people. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study has found that artificial intelligence (AI) can now spot signs of depression in online writing, and can do so with high accuracy. The study, which was published in Corpus-Based Studies Across Humanities, found that models from machine learning (ML), a form of AI, could spot depression in posts on Reddit with 96% accuracy. The researchers say

Nathan Howard / Getty Images On Thursday, Amazon Web Services said that one of its major data centers in north Virginia was overheating so much that it had to be shut down. According to The Next Web, AWS engineers were forced to throttle their services and then reroute customer traffic to other facilities, affecting customers like the crypto platform Coinbase, which experienced an “extended outage of core trading services.” Things hadn’t improved by Friday

Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for frontier AI labs to slow down development for fear that AI models will get exponentially more capable before proper safeguards are in place. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly echoed the sentiment and backed “consistent rules to manage frontier risk.” Someone should probably get around to telling their employees. According to a report from the Financial Times, staffers inside both AI companies were caught