Kimberley Mok
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Montreal, QC, Canada
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ChatGPT Writes Scientific Abstracts That Can Fool Experts
Researchers have shown that ChatGPT is quite good at writing believable scientific abstracts — so good that it not only fooled human experts, but also traditional plagiarism-detection tools. → Read More
GPTZero: An App to Detect AI Authorship
Human-authored text tends to be more complex and uneven, compared to the content generated by bots, a researcher has found. → Read More
AI Image Generation Models and the Ethics of 'Data Laundering'
Will AI-based generative models provide an academic-to-commercial pipeline for big tech companies to get around copyrights and accountability? → Read More
'Common Sense' Test Could Lead to Smarter AI
Researchers from IBM, MIT and Harvard University have developed a series of tests that would evaluate an AI's ability to perceive, understand, and judge in a manner that is shared by nearly all humans. → Read More
How DeepMind's AlphaTensor AI Devised a Faster Matrix Multiplication
The DeepMind team approached the matrix multiplication problem like a game, with AlphaTensor building upon its game-playing predecessor, AlphaZero. → Read More
This Tool Defends AI Models Against Adversarial Attacks
Researchers from Kyushu University have developed a method to assess how neural networks handle unfamiliar elements during image recognition tasks. → Read More
The Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning
We are finding out that as machine learning models grow larger and larger, so do their corresponding carbon footprints, especially when it comes to creating and training these complex models. → Read More
‘Perpetual Motion’ Time Crystals Could Power Quantum Compute –
The mythical Perpetual motion machine — or device that run continuously on their own without the need for a source of external power — have been studied and speculated about for centuries, and are a frequent fixture of science fiction works. And while experts generally say it’s not possible to build a true perpetual motion […] → Read More
A Bizarre Fast Radio Burst From 3 Billion Light-Years Away
This new discovery prompts questions about what kinds of celestial objects may be potential sources for these rapidly repeating radio waves, in addition to how useful these sources might be in various astronomical calculations. → Read More
Evolutionary Game Theory Could Predict Dangerous AI
In order to find out which AI races should be prioritized for regulatory oversight, the researchers created an AI model that simulated various hypothetical scenarios for AI races. → Read More
Observability: Hubble Spots the Most Distant Star Ever Seen
The team's discovery was based on data collected during Hubble’s RELICS (Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey) program, which is led by paper co-author Dan Coe from Baltimore's Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). Using this data, the team estimates that Earendel is at least 50 times the mass of our Sun, and likely shines millions of times as bright. → Read More
‘Quantum Hair’ May Resolve Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox –
Researchers from the University of Sussex, University of Bologna and Michigan State University have published two studies proposing that black holes feature something called "quantum hair." → Read More
Scientists Look to Control Quantum State Without Measuring It
Building practical quantum devices are a major challenge, as quantum systems by their very nature are unpredictable and difficult to control, because objects in quantum systems are considered both particles and waves, unlike in classical systems. Researchers from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute of the University of Basel are now looking into how to get around […] → Read More
Machine Learning Shows How Climate Extremes Change Global Vegetation
The team chose to focus on climate extremes because it is these types of conditions that are now becoming more frequent and severe, due to climate change. → Read More
The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Stack for EV Charging Infrastructure –
The Linux Foiundation's EVerest focuses on developing an open source software stack for EV charging infrastructure, so that charging stations can be deployed more easily on a massive scale. → Read More
EvilModel: Malware that Hides Undetected Inside Deep Learning Models
Researchers have discovered that it was possible to infect a deep learning model with malware, and have it fool anti-malware detectors, all without significantly affecting the model's performance. → Read More
Open Source AI ‘Gym’ Helps Robots Evolve –
The MIT team's platform, Evolution Gym, aims to offer other researchers a simple method of co-optimizing the body structure and controller of robots, in addition to providing a way to test them out in a standardized way. → Read More
Physicists Create ‘Time Crystals’ Using New Quantum Computing Architecture –
The words “time crystal” evoke all sorts of time-honored tropes from science fiction and the gaming industry. But while time crystals may sound like something dreamed up by an overactive imagination, they are now, in fact, something that researchers from QuTech — a collaborative group from Delft University of Technology and TNO, University of California, […] → Read More
AI Biodiversity ‘Time Machine’ Could Decide for Uncertain Future –
A team of researchers from the University of Birmingham are now suggesting that AI could also be leveraged to potentially solve some of the biggest environmental problems that humanity is now facing, such as the serious threats to biodiversity due to pollution and habitat loss stemming from extractive human activities like mining and logging. → Read More
Distributed E. Coli Biocomputer Solves Maze Problems
Engineered bacteria, which consisted of six different genetic logic circuits and distributed among six cell populations, processes the chemical information and solved the problems by expressing, or not expressing, four different fluorescent proteins. → Read More