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‘Droidspeak’: AI Agents Now Have Their Own Language Thanks to …
Nov 21, 2024 · Getting AIs to work together could be a powerful force multiplier for the technology. Now, Microsoft researchers have invented a new language to help their models talk to each other faster and more efficiently.
MIT’s New Robot Dog Learned to Walk and Climb in a Simulation …
Nov 15, 2024 · A big challenge when training AI models to control robots is gathering enough realistic data. Now, researchers at MIT have shown they can train a robot dog using 100 percent synthetic data.
Four Clinical Trials We’re Watching That Could Change Medicine …
Jan 2, 2025 · A Component of Weed Tackles Psychosis. Despite being federally illegal, psychedelics are having a moment. CBD, a component of both weed—which isn’t traditionally considered psychedelic, but can have similar effects—and hemp has already been approved by the FDA for treating seizures in kids two years or older.. A new clinical study called Stratification and Treatment in Early Psychosis ...
ET May Look Nothing Like Life on Earth. Scientists Want a …
Dec 24, 2024 · Exoplanets are remote and hundreds of millions of times fainter than their parent stars, so studying them is challenging. Astronomers can inspect the atmospheres and surfaces of Earth-like exoplanets using a method called spectroscopy to look for chemical signatures of life.. Spectroscopy might detect signatures of oxygen in a planet’s atmosphere, which microbes called blue-green algae ...
Google DeepMind’s New AI Weatherman Tops World’s Most …
Dec 6, 2024 · The team trained the AI on 40 years of historical weather data from a publicly available database up to 2018. Rather than asking for one prediction, they had GenCast spew out a number of forecasts, each one starting with a slightly different weather condition—a different “butterfly,” so to speak.
The Secret to Predicting How Your Brain Will Age May Be in Your …
Dec 13, 2024 · Brain aging occurs in distinctive phases. Its trajectory could be hidden in our blood—paving the way for early diagnosis and intervention. A new study published in Nature Aging analyzed brain imaging data from nearly 11,000 healthy adults, middle-aged and older, using AI to gauge their “brain age.” Roughly half of participants had their blood proteins analyzed to fish out those related ...
Neuralink Rival’s Biohybrid Implant Connects to the Brain With …
Dec 19, 2024 · Brain implants have improved dramatically in recent years, but they’re still invasive and unreliable. A new kind of brain-machine interface using living neurons to form connections could be the future.. While companies like Neuralink have recently provided some flashy demos of what could be achieved by hooking brains up to computers, the technology still has serious limitations preventing ...
Meta's New AI Translates Speech in Real Time Across More Than …
Jan 16, 2025 · The dream of a universal AI interpreter just got a bit closer. This week, tech giant Meta released a new AI that can almost instantaneously translate speech in 101 languages as soon as the words tumble out of your mouth.. AI translators are nothing new. But they generally work best with text and struggle to transform spoken words from one language to another.
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web …
Nov 16, 2024 · COMPUTING. IBM Boosts the Amount of Computation You Can Get Done on Quantum Hardware John Timmer | Ars Technica "There's a general consensus that we won't be able to consistently perform sophisticated quantum calculations without the development of error-corrected quantum computing, which is unlikely to arrive until the end of the decade.