New technologies like AI come with big claims – borrowing the scientific concept of validity can help cut through the hype

Scientists across all fields make various types of claims about their innovations. Validity tests check whether they deliver ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Algorithm–HW Co-Design Framework for Accelerating Attention in Large-Context Scenarios (Cornell)

Compute-Enabled Memory to Accelerate Large-Context LLMs via Sparse Attention” was published by researchers at Cornell ...
NBC Chicago

Woman wins big Powerball prize using numbers she got from ChatGPT

A Michigan woman won a big Powerball prize, and it was all thanks to numbers picked by ChatGPT. Tammy Carvey, a 45-year-old from Wyandotte, Michigan, said she turned to AI for help, and the result ...
The New York Times

Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

'Algorithms of oppression': Big tech urged to combat discrimination

Nearly a decade has passed since Safiya Noble googled "Black girls" and found the search results were mostly pornographic - a ...
Variety

Kevin O’Leary Suggests Using AI Extras Instead of Humans ‘Could Save Millions’ for Movies Like ‘Marty Supreme’: ‘Just Put 100 Norwell Tillies in There’

Kevin O’Leary delivered one of his first promotional plugs for A24’s “Marty Supreme” in typically business-minded fashion. The investor and “Shark Tank” host, who gives his debut feature film acting ...
Politico

Vought promised to use the shutdown to shutter the bureaucracy. It didn’t go as planned.

The mastermind of President Donald Trump’s effort to downsize the federal workforce, Russ Vought, promised to use the government shutdown to advance his goal of “shuttering the bureaucracy.” Presented ...
Coventry Telegraph

Big change could be made on how you use Nuneaton's tip

Changes could be made to how Nuneaton's tip is used. Judkins, like other recycling centres across Warwickshire, has a booking system in place. It was brought in during the Covid pandemic and means ...