On the “Hard Fork” podcast, the hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss Kevin’s high confidence prediction for 2026 that an A.I. company will solve one of the Millennium Prize Problems.
Cash lost and found | Where does the north begin? | Woodstock sign | Schmaltz | Climate change and AI Your letters on the kindness of strangers (2 January) took me back to my days as a duty sergeant at Huyton in the 1990s. A man walked into the station with more than £1,000 in…
Sample of roughly 500 posts shows how frequently people are creating sexualized images with Elon Musk’s AI chatbot New research that samples X users prompting Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok demonstrates how frequently people are creating sexualized images with it. Nearly three-quarters of posts collected and analyzed by a PhD researcher at Dublin’s Trinity College…
Online detectives are inaccurately claiming to have identified the federal agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minnesota based on AI-manipulated images.
Using ACE to create self-improving LLM workflows and structured playbooks The post Beyond Prompting: The Power of Context Engineering appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Why Retrieval Helps in Time Series Forecasting We all know how it goes: Time-series data is tricky. Traditional forecasting models are unprepared for incidents like sudden market crashes, black swan events, or rare weather patterns. Even large fancy models like Chronos sometimes struggle because they haven’t dealt with that kind of pattern before. We can…
Apply the best methods from academia to get the most out of practical applications The post How to Improve the Performance of Visual Anomaly Detection Models appeared first on Towards Data Science.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Researchers are getting organoids pregnant with human embryos At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses into the lining of the uterus then grips tight,…
New Gmail features, powered by the Gemini model, are part of Google’s continued push for users to incorporate AI into their daily life and conversations.
Enterprises are sitting on vast quantities of unstructured data, from call records and video footage to customer complaint histories and supply chain signals. Yet this invaluable business intelligence, estimated to make up as much as 90% of the data generated by organizations, historically remained dormant because its unstructured nature makes analysis extremely difficult. But if…