Published on: 2025-04-19 15:46:06
When it comes to actually storing the numerical weights that power an LLM's underlying neural network, most modern AI models rely on the precision of 16- or 32-bit floating point numbers. But that level of precision can come at the cost of large memory footprints (in the hundreds of gigabytes for the largest models) and significant processing resources needed for the complex matrix multiplication used when responding to prompts. Now, researchers at Microsoft's General Artificial Intelligence gr
Keywords: bit model models precision researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 23:10:54
A digital investigation reveals how AI can latch on to technical terminology, despite it being complete nonsense. AI trawling the internet’s vast repository of journal articles has reproduced an error that’s made its way into dozens of research papers—and now a team of researchers has found the source of the issue. It’s the question on the tip of everyone’s tongues: What the hell is “vegetative electron microscopy”? As it turns out, the term is nonsensical. It sounds technical—maybe even cred
Keywords: ai models papers researchers term
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 09:21:37
TL;DR Google has introduced DolphinGemma, an AI model that allows researchers to speak to dolphins using Pixel phones. The model is trained to analyze and generate dolphin vocalizations, all running through the Pixel 6. Google’s Pixel phones already have you covered to understand different languages with Live Translate. But now, the company is taking things a big splash further. It turns out Pixel phones can not only help people talk to people but also help people talk to dolphins! Yes, you re
Keywords: dolphin dolphingemma google pixel researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 22:43:44
Image by Getty / Futurism Studies As wildly overinvolved parents shell out to give their kids growth hormones to make them taller, some research suggests that putting them on drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have the opposite effect. As the New York Times reports, the scientists behind the Multimodal Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Study, or MTA Study for short, weren't exactly looking for physiological changes in their subjects: a cohort of 5
Keywords: height kids mta researchers study
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 07:20:24
In a collaboration that sounds straight out of sci-fi but is very much grounded in decades of ocean science, Google has teamed up with marine biologists and AI researchers to build a large language model designed not to chat with humans, but with dolphins. The model is DolphinGemma, a cutting-edge LLM trained to recognize, predict, and eventually generate dolphin vocalizations, in an effort to not only crack the code on how the cetaceans communicate with each other—but also how we might be able
Keywords: communication dolphin dolphins model researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 09:01:00
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Why it matters: In what could be the best use of AI to date, Google is using a new AI model and Pixel phones to try to understand dolphins and eventually communicate with the mammals. The aptly named DolphinGemma large language model could interpret whistles, clicks, squawks, and other noises made by everyone's favorite sea creature. Google has announced a collaboration with researchers at Georgia
Keywords: chat dolphins google pixel researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 19:30:22
Would you eat the forbidden fungi? Scientists have uncovered a mushroom-derived compound that seems to be the most bitter substance known on Earth. Researchers in Germany made the not-so-tasty find in a species of mushroom called Amaropostia stiptica—also aptly known as the bitter bracket fungus. The compound is one of three new bitter molecules discovered by studying the mushroom. The findings may help scientists better understand how animals like us evolved to detect bitterness, among other u
Keywords: bitter compounds mushroom researchers taste
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 22:58:00
slowmotiongli/Getty Images Dolphins are among the smartest creatures on the planet, and a new AI model from Google combined with Pixel phones is helping researchers better understand their language -- and even hopefully communicate with them. Here's how it works. Also: The top 20 AI tools - and the #1 thing to remember when you use them Dolphin sounds fall into a few specific categories, such as whistles, squawks, and clicking buzzes, each linked to a different context and behavior. By analy
Keywords: ai dolphin google pixel researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 16:35:32
This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Per-capita income and inequality in the Roman and Han Empires. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58581-0 A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, in the U.S., has found that there was more economic inequali
Keywords: approximately empire han researchers roman
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 02:45:06
Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Boozers beware: a new study has found links between heavy alcohol consumption, brain damage, and earlier death. As the American Academy of Neurology notes, Brazilian researchers established in a new study that heavy drinkers — defined as those who have "eight or more alcoholic drinks per week," so not a particularly gigantic quantity — have a greater risk of developing brain lesions that can cause issues with memory and cognitition. Known as hyaline arteriolo
Keywords: brain drinkers heavy percent researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 04:15:08
For trees, lightning strikes are the great leveller. Stick your neck out by growing taller than the rest, and you risk getting zapped into oblivion. Hundreds of millions of trees suffer this fate every year. But the opposite appears to be the case for the towering tonka bean tree (Dipteryx oleifera), a native of the rainforests of Panama that grows up to 130 feet tall and lives for hundreds of years. Lightning is a weapon in its arsenal, and it wields it masterfully. When an opportune lightnin
Keywords: lightning researchers tonka tree trees
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 23:38:34
Scientists used precisely controlled soundwaves to suspend insect specimens, capturing detailed photographs from multiple angles without damaging the specimens. Macro photography of small specimens is a routine part of scientific research. However, the typical approach of “posing” subjects using pins can damage sensitive specimens and is not an option at all for the smallest specimens. Researchers from the Institute for Automation and Applied Infomatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; the
Keywords: acoustic imaging researchers specimen specimens
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 07:50:53
Even the tiniest of living things are capable of some amazing forms of locomotion, and some come with highly sophisticated sensor suites and manage to source their energy from the environment. Attempts to approach this sort of flexibility with robotics have taken two forms. One involves making tiny robots modeled on animal behavior. The other involves converting a living creature into a robot. So far, either approach has involved giving up a lot. You're either only implementing a few of life's f
Keywords: approach enclosure flies pattern researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 15:10:45
While some companies are developing what most people would call holograms, none have allowed for direct manipulation like the kind seen in sci-fi movies—until now. Researchers from the Public University of Navarra claim to be the first to have developed holograms, officially known as volumetric displays, that users can directly manipulate with their hands. Possible manipulations include grabbing and dragging virtual 3D objects, similar to tapping and dragging icons on a 2D smartphone screen. Th
Keywords: 3d diffuser displays graphics researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 17:53:03
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More We now live in the era of reasoning AI models where the large language model (LLM) gives users a rundown of its thought processes while answering queries. This gives an illusion of transparency because you, as the user, can follow how the model makes its decisions. However, Anthropic, creator of a reasoning model in Claude 3.7 Sonnet, dared to ask, what if we can’t tru
Keywords: hints model models reasoning researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 19:05:43
Doggy park lovers, beware: Researchers in Ireland say they’ve pinpointed the park hot spots where roundworms are most likely to infect our precious pups. Scientists at Trinity College in Ireland led the research, published late last month in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. They tested soil samples from parks across Dublin and found that entrances were the most heavily contaminated part of the park, teeming with dog roundworm (Toxocara canis) eggs. The findings could help prevent these irritat
Keywords: dog dogs eggs parks researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 07:28:28
Google’s artificial intelligence arm DeepMind has been holding back the release of its world-renowned research, as it seeks to retain a competitive edge in the race to dominate the burgeoning AI industry. The group, led by Nobel Prize-winner Sir Demis Hassabis, has introduced a tougher vetting process and more bureaucracy that made it harder to publish studies about its work on AI, according to seven current and former research scientists at Google DeepMind. Three former researchers said the g
Keywords: ai deepmind google papers researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 11:05:33
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More AI agents have a safety and reliability problem. Agents would allow enterprises to automate more steps in their workflows, but they can take unintended actions while executing a task, are not very flexible, and are difficult to control. Organizations have already sounded the alarm about unreliable agents, worried that once deployed, agents might forget to follow instru
Keywords: agent agents agentspec ai researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 23:07:35
Many psychologists and psychiatrists have shared the vision, noting that fewer than half of people with a mental disorder receive therapy, and those who do might get only 45 minutes per week. Researchers have tried to build tech so that more people can access therapy, but they have been held back by two things. One, a therapy bot that says the wrong thing could result in real harm. That’s why many researchers have built bots using explicit programming: The software pulls from a finite bank of a
Keywords: ai based eating researchers therapy
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 23:55:06
Hundreds of millions of years ago, mysterious life forms called Prototaxites towered toward the sky. Believed to be the first giant organisms to thrive on dry land, some species of Prototaxites grew up to 26 feet (8 meters) in height and resembled tree trunks composed of tiny interconnected tubes. Their position in the greater tree of life has been hotly debated for over a century and a half. New research suggests this is because Prototaxites don’t have a place in the tree of life as we know it—
Keywords: eukaryotes fungi organisms prototaxites researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-24 11:00:00
The researchers of Anthropic’s interpretability group know that Claude, the company’s large language model, is not a human being, or even a conscious piece of software. Still, it’s very hard for them to talk about Claude, and advanced LLMs in general, without tumbling down an anthropomorphic sinkhole. Between cautions that a set of digital operations is in no way the same as a cogitating human being, they often talk about what’s going on inside Claude’s head. It’s literally their job to find out
Keywords: answer claude model researchers work
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 02:00:00
Anthropic has developed a new method for peering inside large language models like Claude, revealing for the first time how these AI systems process information and make decisions. The research, published today in two papers (available here and here), shows these models are more sophisticated than previously understood — they plan ahead when writing poetry, use the same internal blueprint to interpret ideas regardless of language, and sometimes even work backward from a desired outcome instead
Keywords: ai claude model models researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 19:40:54
The ancient world was even freakier than we knew. Research out this week details a parasitic wasp preserved in amber for nearly 100 million years that had a Venus flytrap-like belly it might have used to ensnare victims. Scientists in China and Denmark detailed their discovery in a study published late Wednesday in the journal BMC Biology. They’ve named the wasp Sirenobethylus charybdis—a reference to the famous female sea monster of ancient Greek legend. The bug and its unique appearance likel
Keywords: charybdis host insect insects researchers
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 14:54:51
A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.” “[A] key irony of automation is that by mechanising routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive muscul
Keywords: ai confident generative researchers using
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 20:00:25
It’s not just our legs that get put through the wringer during a marathon, new research suggests. Scientists have found evidence that our brains can undergo dramatic changes while we’re running an extreme long distance race. Researchers in Spain conducted the study, published Monday in the journal Nature Metabolism. They scanned the brains of people before and after running a marathon, finding that runners experienced a significant, but temporary reduction of myelin in certain regions. The resu
Keywords: brain marathon myelin researchers runners
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 14:10:10
A common workout supplement might be less useful than believed. In research out this month, scientists found that creatine failed to help people build significantly more muscle than normal while training. Researchers at the University of New South Wales led the study, published last week in the journal Nutrients. The clinical trial compared people who underwent resistance training while taking or not taking a typical daily dose of creatine, finding no significant difference in added lean body m
Keywords: creatine mass people researchers taking
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 02:03:00
Satellites like the ones used for Starlink’s internet service could be depleting the Earth’s ozone layer when they’re deorbited, according to a new study funded by NASA and published in Geophysical Research Letters. When Starlink’s satellites reach the end of their lives, they burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere and leave behind small particles of aluminum oxide. These travel down into the ozone layer, which absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation. Researchers from the University of Southern Califo
Keywords: 000 aluminum researchers satellites starlink
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 08:46:00
Forward-looking: Researchers around the world are embracing DNA-based storage right now. Mixing digital data and biology could bridge the best of both worlds, though a few challenges are still slowing market and industry adoption. Visionary solutions using DNA sequencing have been hailed as the future of the storage world for a few years now. Biology seems to have solved the data encoding problem a few billion years ago, so we could learn a thing or two from nature while we prepare to expand th
Keywords: data dna dnaformer researchers storage
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 18:46:00
Forward-looking: Researchers around the world are embracing DNA-based storage right now. Mixing digital data and biology could bridge the best of both worlds, though a few challenges are still slowing market and industry adoption. Visionary solutions using DNA sequencing have been hailed as the future of the storage world for a few years now. Biology seems to have solved the data encoding problem a few billion years ago, so we could learn a thing or two from nature while we prepare to expand th
Keywords: data dna dnaformer researchers storage
Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 03:00:16
Consider, for your listening pleasure, the next frontier in sonic miracles: so-called "audible enclaves," where only you can hear a sound without disturbing anyone else in open space — no headphones required. As developed by a team of researchers at Penn State, whose findings are published as study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, this technology can create pockets of sound isolated from their surroundings that can be targeted at a specific location, potentially p
Keywords: audible beams researchers sound waves
Find related items on AmazonGo K’awiil is a project by nerdhub.co that curates technology news from a variety of trusted sources. We built this site because, although news aggregation is incredibly useful, many platforms are cluttered with intrusive ads and heavy JavaScript that can make mobile browsing a hassle. By hand-selecting our favorite tech news outlets, we’ve created a cleaner, more mobile-friendly experience.
Your privacy is important to us. Go K’awiil does not use analytics tools such as Facebook Pixel or Google Analytics. The only tracking occurs through affiliate links to amazon.com, which are tagged with our Amazon affiliate code, helping us earn a small commission.
We are not currently offering ad space. However, if you’re interested in advertising with us, please get in touch at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to review your submission.