An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence.
How approximate vector search silently degrades Recall—and what to do about It The post HNSW at Scale: Why Your RAG System Gets Worse as the Vector Database Grows appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Exclusive: Move follows outcry over use of Grok to digitally remove clothing from images of women and children The influential Commons women and equalities committee has decided to stop using X after the social media site’s AI tool began generating thousands of digitally-altered images of women and children with their clothes digitally removed. The move…
Why privacy breaks fairness at small scale—and how collaboration fixes both without sharing a single record The post I Evaluated Half a Million Credit Records with Federated Learning. Here’s What I Found appeared first on Towards Data Science.
When the concept of “Web 3.0” first emerged about a decade ago the idea was clear: Create a more user-controlled internet that lets you do everything you can now, except without servers or intermediaries to manage the flow of information. Where Web2, which emerged in the early 2000s, relies on centralized systems to store data…
Sam Rodriques, a founder of the artificial intelligence science lab FutureHouse, shares his thoughts on what A.I. and tech lives up to the hype in a game with Kevin Roose and Casey Newton of the “Hard Fork” podcast.
Human-guided AI collaboration The post Probabilistic Multi-Variant Reasoning: Turning Fluent LLM Answers Into Weighted Options appeared first on Towards Data Science.
My take after 10 years in Supply Chain on why this can be an excellent playground for data scientists who want to see their skills valued. The post Why Supply Chain is the Best Domain for Data Scientists in 2026 (And How to Learn It) appeared first on Towards Data Science.
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. I am writing this because one of my editors woke up in the middle of the night and scribbled on a bedside notepad: “What is a…
eSafety Australia says it ‘has received several reports relating to the use of Grok to generate sexualised images without consent’ since late 2025 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s online safety watchdog is investigating sexualised deepfake images posted on X…