…the degree of continuity an individual feels with their future self—can positively influence saving behavior, academic performance, mental health, and subjective quality of life… The conversation with the future self is generated in real-time via a large language model that has been personalized based on a pre-intervention survey assessing user future goals and personal qualities.
A new smart monitoring system could help doctors avoid mistakes—but it’s also alarming some surgeons and leading to sabotage.
Technological strides have made automata soft and sensitive enough to pack bento boxes.
The humanoid robot incorporates advanced force control algorithms, aiding it in walking steadily across various surfaces.
6 Jun 2024 - Google has developed a new AI tool to …understand coral reef ecosystems … was trained on thousands of hours of audio reef recordings that allow scientists studying the reef to be able to “hear reef health from the inside,” track reef activity at night
Google's Operations Research team is proud to announce the Shipping Network Design API…enabling solutions to world-scale supply chain problems, while being faster than any known previous attempts. It is able to double the profit of a container shipper, deliver 13% more containers, and do so with 15% fewer vessels.
…scaling quality NMT requires large volumes of parallel bilingual data, which are not equally available for the 7,000+ languages in the world…we introduce No Language Left Behind—a single massively multilingual model that leverages transfer learning across languages…Compared with the previous state-of-the-art models, our model achieves an average of 44% improvement in translation quality as measured by BLEU.
Machine learning predicts nearly 1 million new antibiotics in the global microbiome… Out of 100 tested peptides, 79 were active in vitro; 63 of these targeted pathogens
…new AI-powered app builder… generates app code that’s “fully native” to iOS and Android. Users have control over their app’s branding, layout and features, including icons and themes, and can preview the app before submitting it to the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.
AI apps can help autistic people practice social skills. But algorithms are no substitute for human relationships, experts say
