Building AI Models To Diagnose HVAC Issues

HVAC – heating, ventilation, and air conditioning – can account for a huge amount of energy usage of a building, whether it’s residential or industrial. Often it’s the major…

Taco Bell To Bring Voice AI Ordering To Hundreds Of US Drive-Throughs

Drive-throughs are a popular feature at fast-food places, where you can get some fast grub without even leaving your car. For the fast-food companies running them they are also a big focus of autom…

AI Image Generator Twists In Response To MIDI Dials, In Real-time

MIDI isn’t just about music, as [Johannes Stelzer] shows by using dials to adjust AI-generated imagery in real-time. The results are wild, with an interactivity to them that we don’t no…

Analyzing Feature Learning In Artificial Neural Networks And Neural Collapse

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are commonly used for machine vision purposes, where they are tasked with object recognition. This is accomplished by taking a multi-layer network and using a trai…

Mechanical Intelligence And Counterfeit Humanity

It would seem fair to say that the second half of last century up till the present day has been firmly shaped by our relation with technology and that of computers in particular. From the bulking b…

Can AI Predict Death?

The possibility of predicting death using artificial intelligence (AI) is sparking both fascination and concern in scientific and medical circles. Recently, several studies have shown that AI could indeed play a role in estimating an individual's...

Cloudflare Adds Block For AI Scrapers And Similar Bots

It’s no big secret that a lot of the internet traffic today consists out of automated requests, ranging from innocent bots like search engine indexers to data scraping bots for LLM and simila…

Peering Into The Black Box Of Large Language Models

Large Language Models (LLMs) can produce extremely human-like communication, but their inner workings are something of a mystery. Not a mystery in the sense that we don’t know how an LLM work…

ChatGPT And Other LLMs Produce Bull Excrement, Not Hallucinations

In the communications surrounding LLMs and popular interfaces like ChatGPT the term ‘hallucination’ is often used to reference false statements made in the output of these models. This …

Llama.ttf Is AI, In A Font

It’s a great joke, and like all great jokes it makes you think. [Søren Fuglede Jørgensen] managed to cram a 15 M parameter large language model into a completely valid TrueType font: llama.ttf. Bei…

Torment Poor Milton With Your Best Pixel Art

One of the great things about new tech tools is just having fun with them, like embracing your inner trickster god to mess with ‘Milton’, an AI trapped in an empty room. Milton is trapp…

Testing Large Language Models For Circuit Board Design Aid

Beyond bothering large language models (LLMs) with funny questions, there’s the general idea that they can act as supporting tools. Theoretically they should be able to assist with parsing an…

Uncovering ChatGPT Usage In Academic Papers Through Excess Vocabulary

That students these days love to use ChatGPT for assistance with reports and other writing tasks is hardly a secret, but in academics it’s becoming ever more prevalent as well. This raises th…

McDonald’s Terminates Its Drive-Through Ordering Via AI Assistant

McDonald’s recently announced that it will be scrapping the voice-assistant which it has installed at over 100 of its drive-throughs after a two-year trial run. In the email that was sent to …

EMO: Alibaba’s Diffusion Model-Based Talking Portrait Generator

Alibaba’s EMO (or Emote Portrait Alive) framework is a recent entry in a series of attempts to generate a talking head using existing audio (spoken word or vocal audio) and a reference portra…

Artificial Intelligence, Friend? Foe? Or Both? Aage Nost on The Vinny Eastwood Show

Artificial Intelligence, Friend? Foe? Or Both? Aage Nost on The Vinny Eastwood Show https://www.thevinnyeastwoodshow.com/latest/artificial-intelligence-friend-foe-or-both-aage-nost-on-the-vinny-eastwood-show Watch on BITCHUTE / ODYSEE / TWITCH /…

What If <emThe Matrix Was Made In The 1950s?

We’ve noticed a recent YouTube trend of producing trailers for shows and movies as if they were produced in the 1950s, even when they weren’t. The results are impressive and, as you mig…