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How 3D printers can give robots a soft touch

How 3D printers can give robots a soft touch

Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A recent study demonstrates that soft skin pads doubling as sensors made from thermoplastic urethane can be efficiently manufactured using 3D printers. "Robotic hardware can involve large forces and torques, so it needs to be made quite safe if it's going to either directly interact with humans or be used in human environments," said project lead Joohyung Kim, a professor of electrical & computer engineering at the University…
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Fusion Funding Has Fizzled

Fusion Funding Has Fizzled

Funding to startups focused on fusion energy has declined sharply in recent quarters after hitting a high two-and-a-half years ago. So far this year, just $58 million has gone to companies innovating around the future of fusion as a potential power source, per Crunchbase data. By contrast, more than $2.4 billion went to the space in the fourth quarter of 2021, the peak period for funding. For a sense of how fusion-focused startup funding has fluctuated, we used Crunchbase data to chart out investment to the space over the past 14 quarters. As you can see, there was something resembling…
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CausalConceptTS: Causal Attributions for Time Series Classification using High Fidelity Diffusion Models

CausalConceptTS: Causal Attributions for Time Series Classification using High Fidelity Diffusion Models

[Submitted on 24 May 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled CausalConceptTS: Causal Attributions for Time Series Classification using High Fidelity Diffusion Models, by Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz and 1 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Despite the excelling performance of machine learning models, understanding the decisions of machine learning models remains a long-standing goal. While commonly used attribution methods in explainable AI attempt to address this issue, they typically rely on associational rather than causal relationships. In this study, within the context of time series classification, we introduce a novel framework to assess the causal effect of concepts,…
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German partnership to bring together quantum and supercomputing

German partnership to bring together quantum and supercomputing

German quantum computer startup eleQtron and Forschungszentrum Jülich’s world-leading supercomputing centre are entering into a development partnership to make their trapped-ion quantum computer operational by the end of 2024. Prof. Dr. Christof Wunderlich and Dr. Habil Michael Johanning, eleQtron’s two founders, were involved in the construction of the first German quantum computer. Using trapped ions for quantum information processing allows for more accuracy, but the complex control systems it requires can reduce overall operational efficiency, and both partners believe collaboration will allow them to overcome this barrier and enable hybrid quantum–classical algorithms to be used in practice for the first…
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Argentinian president to meet Silicon Valley CEOs in bid to court tech titans

Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, is set to meet with the leaders of some of the world’s largest tech companies in Silicon Valley this week. The far-right libertarian leader will hold private talks with Sundar Pichai of Google, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Tim Cook of Apple.Milei also met last month with Elon Musk, who has become one of the South American president’s most prominent cheerleaders and repeatedly shared his pro-deregulation, anti-social justice message on X (formerly Twitter). Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire, has also twice visited Milei, flying to Buenos Aires to speak with him in…
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3D Learnable Supertoken Transformer for LiDAR Point Cloud Scene Segmentation

3D Learnable Supertoken Transformer for LiDAR Point Cloud Scene Segmentation

arXiv:2405.15826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D Transformers have achieved great success in point cloud understanding and representation. However, there is still considerable scope for further development in effective and efficient Transformers for large-scale LiDAR point cloud scene segmentation. This paper proposes a novel 3D Transformer framework, named 3D Learnable Supertoken Transformer (3DLST). The key contributions are summarized as follows. Firstly, we introduce the first Dynamic Supertoken Optimization (DSO) block for efficient token clustering and aggregating, where the learnable supertoken definition avoids the time-consuming pre-processing of traditional superpoint generation. Since the learnable supertokens can be dynamically optimized by multi-level deep features…
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AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry

AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry

Research Published 17 January 2024 Authors Trieu Trinh and Thang Luong Our AI system surpasses the state-of-the-art approach for geometry problems, advancing AI reasoning in mathematicsReflecting the Olympic spirit of ancient Greece, the International Mathematical Olympiad is a modern-day arena for the world's brightest high-school mathematicians. The competition not only showcases young talent, but has emerged as a testing ground for advanced AI systems in math and reasoning.In a paper published today in Nature, we introduce AlphaGeometry, an AI system that solves complex geometry problems at a level approaching a human Olympiad gold-medalist - a breakthrough in AI performance. In…
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How ‘apocalypse’ became a secular as well as religious idea

How ‘apocalypse’ became a secular as well as religious idea

The exponential growth of artificial intelligence over the past year has sparked discussions about whether the era of human domination of our planet is drawing to a close. The most dire predictions claim that the machines will take over within five to 10 years. Fears of AI are not the only things driving public concern about the end of the world. Climate change and pandemic diseases are also well-known threats. Reporting on these challenges and dubbing them a potential “apocalypse” has become common in the media – so common, in fact, that it might go unnoticed, or may simply be…
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Zero-Shot Spam Email Classification Using Pre-trained Large Language Models

Zero-Shot Spam Email Classification Using Pre-trained Large Language Models

arXiv:2405.15936v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates the application of pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for spam email classification using zero-shot prompting. We evaluate the performance of both open-source (Flan-T5) and proprietary LLMs (ChatGPT, GPT-4) on the well-known SpamAssassin dataset. Two classification approaches are explored: (1) truncated raw content from email subject and body, and (2) classification based on summaries generated by ChatGPT. Our empirical analysis, leveraging the entire dataset for evaluation without further training, reveals promising results. Flan-T5 achieves a 90% F1-score on the truncated content approach, while GPT-4 reaches a 95% F1-score using summaries. While these initial…
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Thunderbird Appointment promises to make scheduling easier – gHacks Tech News

Thunderbird Appointment promises to make scheduling easier – gHacks Tech News

The team behind the open source email client Thunderbird has unveiled its latest side-project. Thunderbird Appointment is an online service designed to help everyone schedule meetings and make appointments. The project is in a prototype stage currently. It is the second project of the Thunderbird team that is not linked directly to the email client. The first aims to revive Firefox Send, a file sending service that Mozilla disabled years ago because of abuse. It is a good fit for an email client, considering that emails are still severely limited by size. With a service like Thunderbird Send integrated into…
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