OpenAI researchers are testing “confessions,” a method that trains models to admit when they make mistakes or act undesirably, helping improve AI honesty, transparency, and trust in model outputs.
Most breakthroughs in deep learning — from simple neural networks to large language models — are built upon a principle that is much older than AI itself: decentralization. Instead of relying on a powerful “central planner” coordinating and commanding the behaviors of other components, modern deep-learning-based AI models succeed because many simple units interact locally […] The post Decentralized Computation: The Hidden Principle Behind Deep Learning appeared first on Towards Data Science.
As language models (LMs) improve at tasks like image generation, trivia questions, and simple math, you might think that human-like reasoning is around the corner. In reality, they still trail us by a wide margin on complex tasks. Try playing Sudoku with one, for instance, where you fill in numbers one through nine in such a way that each appears only once across the columns, rows, and sections of a nine-by-nine grid. Your AI opponent will either fail […]
Trump signed an AI executive order targeting state laws and promising one national rulebook. Critics warn it could trigger court battles and prolong uncertainty for startups while Congress debates federal rules.
Learn how to detect outliers by doing a real-life data project and improve the process with AI.
For pregnant women, ultrasounds are an informative (and sometimes necessary) procedure. They typically produce two-dimensional black-and-white scans of fetuses that can reveal key insights, including biological sex, approximate size, and abnormalities like heart issues or cleft lip. If your doctor wants a closer look, they may use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which uses magnetic fields to capture images that can be combined to create a 3D view of the fetus. MRIs aren’t a catch-all, though; the 3D scans […]
Key Highlights: Spotify isn’t shying away from bringing new AI features to its platform. The music-streaming giant has now announced a new feature that gives users more control over the service’s algorithm. Prompted Playlists is an evolved version of Spotify’s AI Playlists Well… that’s how Spotify is positioning the launch of its new “Prompted Playlists” feature. So, what’s new feature all about? Basically, it allows you to describe what you want to hear in a personalized playlist, which […]
Tweet … is from page 130 of Norbert Michel’s superb and data-rich 2025 book, Crushing Capitalism: How Populist Policies are Threatening the American Dream: Regardless of the politics, the evidence simply does not connect widespread economic difficulties to “trade with China” or competition with “cheap labor.” The evidence also fails to support the widely repeated claim that the typical American worker’s real wages have not budged in decades. Although there is no single “right” way to measure income […]
3D printing has come a long way since its invention in 1983 by Chuck Hull, who pioneered stereolithography, a technique that solidifies liquid resin into solid objects using ultraviolet lasers. Over the decades, 3D printers have evolved from experimental curiosities into tools capable of producing everything from custom prosthetics to complex food designs, architectural models, and even functioning human organs. But as the technology matures, its environmental footprint has become increasingly difficult to set aside. The vast majority […]
Autonomous vehicle (AV) stacks are evolving from many distinct models to a unified, end-to-end architecture that executes driving actions directly from sensor data. This transition to using larger models is drastically increasing the demand for high-quality, physically based sensor data for training, testing and validation. To help accelerate the development of next-generation AV architectures, NVIDIA today released NVIDIA Cosmos Predict-2 — a new world foundation model with improved future world state prediction capabilities for high-quality synthetic data generation […]