Visual Deformation Detection Using Soft Material Simulation for Pre-training of Condition Assessment Models
27 May

Visual Deformation Detection Using Soft Material Simulation for Pre-training of Condition Assessment Models

stp2y0 CommentsViral News
arXiv:2405.14877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper addresses the challenge of geometric quality assurance in manufacturing, particularly when human assessment is required. It proposes using Blender, an open-source simulation tool, to create synthetic datasets for machine learning (ML) models. The process involves translating expert information into shape key parameters to simulate deformations, generating images for both deformed and non-deformed objects. The study explores the impact of discrepancies between real and simulated environments on ML model performance and investigates the effect of different simulation backgrounds on model sensitivity. Additionally, the study aims to enhance the model's robustness to camera positioning by…
Read More
AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilisations
27 May

AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilisations

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPT
Artificial intelligence (AI) has progressed at an astounding pace over the last few years. Some scientists are now looking towards the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI) — a form of AI that would not only surpass human intelligence but would not be bound by the learning speeds of humans. But what if this milestone isn’t just a remarkable achievement? What if it also represents a formidable bottleneck in the development of all civilisations, one so challenging that it thwarts their long-term survival? This idea is at the heart of a research paper I recently published in Acta Astronautica. Could AI…
Read More
Linking In-context Learning in Transformers to Human Episodic Memory
27 May

Linking In-context Learning in Transformers to Human Episodic Memory

stp2y0 CommentsViral News
arXiv:2405.14992v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding the connections between artificial and biological intelligent systems can reveal fundamental principles underlying general intelligence. While many artificial intelligence (AI) models have a neuroscience counterpart, such connections are largely missing in Transformer models and the self-attention mechanism. Here, we examine the relationship between attention heads and human episodic memory. We focus on the induction heads, which contribute to the in-context learning capabilities of Transformer-based large language models (LLMs). We demonstrate that induction heads are behaviorally, functionally, and mechanistically similar to the contextual maintenance and retrieval (CMR) model of human episodic memory. Our analyses of…
Read More
Microsoft lists reasons why Windows 11 is better than Windows 10 but forgets to mention this – gHacks Tech News
27 May

Microsoft lists reasons why Windows 11 is better than Windows 10 but forgets to mention this – gHacks Tech News

stp2y0 CommentsNews
Windows 10 is a dying operating system. Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 10 in October 2025. While customers may extend support by up to three years, they have to pay Microsoft for that privilege. It should not come as a surprise that Microsoft's primary goal is to get customers to migrate to Windows 11. Existing PCs may be upgraded to Windows 11, and if that is not possible, Microsoft recommends to buy a new PC with Windows 11 instead. Microsoft published a comparison table to highlight the advantages that Windows 11 has over Windows 10. The list compares…
Read More
Introducing the REFORMS checklist for ML-based science
27 May

Introducing the REFORMS checklist for ML-based science

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPT
See the REFORMS pre-print and checklist here.Every music producer is looking for the next hit song. So when a paper claimed that machine learning can predict hit songs with 97% accuracy, it would have been music to their ears. News outlets, including Scientific American and Axios, published pieces about how this "frightening accuracy" could revolutionize the music industry. Earlier studies have found that it is hard to predict if a song will be successful in advance, so this paper seemed to be a dramatic achievement. Unfortunately for music producers, we found that the study's results are bogus.The model presented in the…
Read More
Robots invited to help make wind turbine blades
27 May

Robots invited to help make wind turbine blades

stp2y0 CommentsGenAI
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have successfully leveraged robotic assistance in the manufacture of wind turbine blades, allowing for the elimination of difficult working conditions for humans and the potential to improve the consistency of the product. Although robots have been used by the wind energy industry to paint and polish blades, automation has not been widely adopted. Research at the laboratory demonstrates the ability of a robot to trim, grind, and sand blades. Those necessary steps occur after the two sides of the blade are made using a mold and then bonded…
Read More
Data Machina #236
27 May

Data Machina #236

stp2y0 CommentsViral News
Mix, Bind & Merge OS Small AI Models FTW! Y2024: The year that open-source, small AI model-combos beat the big boys? The open source AI community and small AI startups are releasing a plethora of open-source, small AI models that are matching or -in some instances- even outperforming AI Titans’ huge models. I’m rooting for the open-source AI community!These new os small models are leveraging supper efficient techniques like quantisation and fine-tuning with QLoRA, and fine-tuning with DPO. There’s a whole new range of open-source tools like LLamaFactory designed to easily, efficiently fine-tune these os models.Using e.g. the free LM…
Read More
No widgets found. Go to Widget page and add the widget in Offcanvas Sidebar Widget Area.