Language shapes visual processing in both human brains and AI models, study finds

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...
Nature

‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI

Tadeo Ramirez-Parada studied the timing of plant flowering for his PhD — but he didn’t touch a single petal. Instead, he ...
MIT Technology Review

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?

Think back to middle school algebra, like 2 a + b. Those letters are parameters: Assign them values and you get a result. In ...

Can You Optimize Love?

A group of tech executives, app developers and Silicon Valley philosophers is seeking to streamline the messy matters of the ...
Carnegie Mellon University

Teaching a Robot To Hang a T-shirt Starts With Data

For a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship project, Carnegie Mellon University sophomore Jasmine Li worked with robotic arms in the Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction Lab to analyze the ...

We’re talking about AI all wrong. Here’s how we can fix the narrative

Artificial brains, humanoid robots and ‘assistants’ are misleading myths – and they directly affect how we use AI.