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Computer Sciences
Q&A: Model disgorgement—the key to fixing AI bias and copyright infringement?
By now, the challenges posed by generative AI are no secret. Models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude and Meta's Llama have been known to "hallucinate," inventing potentially misleading responses, as well as divulge ...
May 17, 2024
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Internet
Orphan articles: The 'dark matter' of Wikipedia
Wikipedia is the largest platform for open and freely accessible knowledge online yet, in a new study, EPFL researchers have found that around 15% of the content is effectively invisible to readers browsing within Wikipedia. ...
May 17, 2024
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From the road to the cloud: Leveraging vehicle Global Navigation Satellite System raw data
Innovative Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning technologies harness massive vehicle-generated data to create high-resolution atmospheric delay correction maps, significantly enhancing Global Positioning ...
May 17, 2024
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New browser extension empowers users to fight online misinformation
Most people agree that the spread of online misinformation is a serious problem. But there is much less consensus on what to do about it.
May 16, 2024
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Sarcasm, notoriously difficult to interpret, demystified by multimodal approach
Oscar Wilde once said that sarcasm was the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence. Perhaps that is due to how difficult it is to use and understand. Sarcasm is notoriously tricky to convey through text—even ...
May 16, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Generating empathetic machine responses through emotion tracking and constraint guidance
Enabling machines to communicate like humans is a long-term goal of open-domain dialogue generation. To achieve this goal, more and more studies on dialogue generation focus on the key factor, emotion. The empathetic dialogue ...
May 16, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Digital records can help make European homes and offices greener and healthier
In the southern Italian town of Ruvo di Puglia, a school that opened in 1924 is getting a 21st century upgrade.
May 14, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Aurora supercomputer breaks exascale barrier
Aurora's speed and artificial intelligence capabilities will transform scientific research and enable breakthroughs in some of the world's most pressing challenges, from climate and materials science to energy storage and ...
May 14, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Cinematic tools can significantly improve user experience in virtual reality environments
Cinematography techniques can significantly increase user engagement with virtual environments and, in particular, the aesthetic appeal of what users see in virtual reality.
May 14, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Researchers improve scene perception with innovative framework
Led by Prof. Liu Yong from the Hefei lnstitutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers have proposed a novel framework, called Clip-based Knowledge Transfer and Relational Context Mining (CKT-RCM), ...
May 13, 2024
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Internet
Prototype browser extension adds Wikipedia-like citations on YouTube to curb misinformation
While Google has long been synonymous with search, people are increasingly seeking information directly through video platforms such as YouTube. Videos can be dense with information: text, audio, and image after image. Yet, ...
May 9, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Degradation-adaptive neural network for jointly single image dehazing and desnowing
In harsh winter scenes, the captured images often suffer from haze and snow degradations simultaneously, which significantly affect the performance of high-level computer vision tasks. Most existing restoration methods are ...
May 9, 2024
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Software
New software trained on photographic database may allow facial recognition beneath the mask
During the COVID-19 pandemic, facemasks became almost ubiquitous and still are in some environments. There is a need for face recognition to be able to "see behind the mask" for security and safety.
May 7, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Multiplexed neuron sets make smaller optical neural networks possible
Seeking to improve the practicality of optical neural networks that use wavelength division multiplexing, a research team developed a structure called multiplexed neuron sets and a corresponding backpropagation training algorithm.
May 6, 2024
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Computer Sciences
3D video conferencing tool lets remote user control the view
Collaborating on a physical object when two people aren't in the same room can be extremely challenging, but a new remote conferencing system allows the remote user to manipulate a view of the scene in 3D, to assist in complex ...
May 6, 2024
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Hardware
Researchers propose design methodology for hardware Gaussian random number generators
A research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has proposed a novel design methodology for Gaussian random number (GRN) generators tailored for SerDes ...
May 6, 2024
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