In 1989, Yann LeCun helped show that neural networks could read handwritten ZIP codes, laying groundwork for systems that later read bank checks

In 1989, a computer scientist tackled the messy challenge of reading handwritten zip codes for the US Post Office. This ...

AI Hallucinations Are A Feature, Not A Bug

Nvidia’s paper on its ArtFixer tool begins with a line that is absolutely incomprehensible if you’re not already AI-pilled: ...
IEEE

Explore Your Network in Minutes: A Rapid Prototyping Toolkit for Understanding Neural Networks with Visual Analytics

Abstract: Neural networks attract significant attention in almost every field due to their widespread applications in various tasks. However, developers often struggle with debugging due to the ...
TechCrunch

So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that

Artificial intelligence is changing the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Spend five minutes reading about AI and you’ll run into LLMs, RAG, RLHF, ...
EurekAlert!

“A new security technology that locks information with light color and distance” — unhackable metasurface holograms

Schematic of secure holography using a reconfigurable stacked metasurface based on a modular diffractive deep neural network. Each metasurface layer independently reconstructs distinct ...
IEEE

Activation Functions in Non-Negative Neural Networks

Abstract: Optical neural networks (ONNs) have the potential to overcome scaling limitations of transistor-based systems due to their inherent low latency and large available bandwidth. However, ...
Quanta Magazine

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...
GitHub

Graph Structure of Neural Networks

TLDR: We study the architecture of neural networks through the lens of network science, and discover that good neural networks are alike in terms of their underlying graph structure. Overview of our ...
Quanta Magazine

How Can AI ID a Cat? An Illustrated Guide.

Neural networks power today’s AI boom. To understand them, all we need is a map, a cat and a few thousand dimensions. Look at a picture of a cat, and you’ll instantly recognize it as a cat. But try to ...
Futurism

Doom Running on a Neural Network Is a Surreal Dreamscape

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Ars Technica

Here’s what’s really going on inside an LLM’s neural network

With most computer programs—even complex ones—you can meticulously trace through the code and memory usage to figure out why that program generates any specific behavior or output. That’s generally ...