Machine learning

20 Oct 23

Evaluating COM Express and COM-HPC for Your Projects

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This sponsored article is brought to you by Kontron. When the COM-HPC standard was first mooted in 2019, there was, understandably, some initial concern in the market over its potential impact on COM Express Type 6 and 7 modules. This quickly dissipated once the specification became clear. After all, they…

11 Oct 23

2D Transistors, 3D Chips, and More Mad Stuff

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The 69th Annual IEEE International Electron Device Meeting is set to start on 9 December, and the conference teaser shows that researchers have been extending the roadmap for a number of technologies, notably those used to make CPUs and GPUs.Because chip companies can’t keep on increasing transistor density by scaling…

21 Sep 23

Developing the Next Generation of AI Assistant

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This sponsored article is brought to you by the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. If you’ve ever learned to cook, you know how daunting even simple tasks can be at first. It’s a delicate dance of ingredients, movement, heat, and techniques that newcomers need endless practice to master. But imagine…

18 Sep 23

Nvidia Still on Top in Machine Learning; Intel Chasing

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Large language models like Llama2 and ChatGPT are where much of the action is in AI. But how well do today’s datacenter-class computers execute them? Pretty well, according to the latest set of benchmark results for machine learning, with the best able to summarize more than 100 articles in a…

03 Sep 23

Cracking the Puzzle of Serpentine Motion

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

The counterintuitive and sinewy motions of snakes, stingrays, and skydivers represent a strange kind of motion that is notoriously hard to simulate, animate, or anticipate. All three types of locomotion—through sand, sea, and air—represent movement that relies on neither wings nor limbs but rather subtle and sometimes sudden changes of…

26 Aug 23

Why Today’s Chatbots Are Weird, Argumentative, and Wrong

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Long before most people began playing around with generative AI models like ChatGPT and DALL-E, Janelle Shane started documenting AI oddities. An optics researcher by training, she’s also held a long fascination in testing AIs’ ability to be, well, normal. With more and more people testing AI limits than ever…

26 Aug 23

This AI Can Tell What You’re Typing Based on the Sound

Computer & Information Technology

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. The messages you type can be decoded from the mere sound of your fingers tapping on the keys, according to a recent paper by researchers at Durham and Surrey Universities and the University of…

25 Aug 23

Record Broken: Decoding Words From Brain Signals

Computer & Information Technology

Two new brain-computer interfaces (BCI)—electronic bridges between mind and machine—decode words from people’s unspoken but intended speech. The two systems, presented in papers published this week in the journal Nature, demonstrate performance breakthroughs for speech-decoding BCI developed by scientists at Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco.Both papers…

18 Aug 23

Neurotech Overhears Songs from Listener’s Brainwaves

Computer & Information Technology

Ever had a song stuck in your head? New research from a team of neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley maps out regions of the human brain that make earworms—and music perception more broadly—possible.The research results, recently published in the journal PLOS Biology, show how human brains respond to…

27 Jul 23

Llama and ChatGPT Are Not Open-Source

Computer & Information Technology

Social media and advertising-technology company Meta recently released an update to its large language model Llama. Llama 2 was released as open source, providing users access to the model’s weights, evaluation code, and documentation. Meta states the open-source release was intended to make the model “accessible to individuals, creators, researchers,…