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AI Is Advancing Faster Than Our Ability to Understand It, Researchers Warn

While we still can't explain how AI works, algorithms are rapidly learning what makes us tick. And the gap is widening. AI is becoming more powerful, and mysterious. Despite years of work on ...
EurekAlert!

Tiny sesame sea slug species discovered in the waters of northern Taiwan

“Taiwanese divers call it ‘sesame’ in Chinese and it is also small like a sesame seed, hence the name,” the research team explained regarding their decision to honour the local nickname in the ...
IEEE

Can LLMs Understand Parallel and Distributed Machine Learning Algorithms in AIoT?

Abstract: The Internet of Things technology has evolved from standalone tools to open systems supporting parallel and distributed computing. In particular, federated learning (FL) has become a key ...
Variety

‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Is a French Novelist Spying on the Apartment Across the Street in Asghar Farhadi’s Weirdly Muddled Voyeuristic Head Game

Making his second feature in France, the Iranian director meditates on fiction and reality but never draws us into his drama of trickery and deceit. As she starts the writing process, she pecks at the ...
Deadline.com

‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Spies On Her Neighbors In Asghar Farhadi’s Entertaining And Smartly Executed French Drama – Cannes Film Festival

The great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes competition for a fifth time with his first film in five years and arguably one that ranks with his very best. That is a high bar since two ...
TechCrunch

Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise

Parallel Web Systems, the AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised a $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation led by Sequoia. Existing investors Kleiner ...
TechCrunch

Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...
VentureBeat

Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...
Psychology Today

Navigating the Impacts of AI-Driven Social Media Algorithms

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...
PNAS

Parallel algorithms for phylogenetic inference under a structured coalescent approximation

Timely reconstruction of epidemic dynamics is essential for public health, and structured coalescent models constitute an essential tool for this purpose. However, statistical and computational ...
Scientific American

Consciousness explained? What brains, AI and dream states reveal

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