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Artificial intelligence
Cognitive scientists have long sought to understand what makes some sentences more difficult to comprehend than others. Any account of language comprehension, researchers believe, would benefit from understanding…
After disasters, damaged water and power infrastructure can turn a localized crisis into a national catastrophe. “When typhoons and earthquakes cause utility infrastructure to collapse, such events turn into…
But this spam content may not have had anything to do with the Chinese government after all, according to a report published on Monday by the Stanford Internet…
Inspired by living systems, researchers at Aalto University have developed a new material that changes its electrical behaviour based on previous experience, effectively giving it a basic form…
Posted by Jason Wei and Yi Tay, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team
Data scientists have used the DataRobot AI Cloud platform to build time series models for several years. Recently, new forecasting features and an improved integration with Google BigQuery…
MIT senior Teresa Gao has been named one of the 12 winners of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship’s Class of 2024. After graduating next spring with a double…
Posted by Jason Wei and Yi Tay, Research Scientists, Google Research, Brain Team In recent years, language models (LMs) have become more prominent in natural language processing (NLP)…
The advance demonstrates the basic viability of fusion energy, a goal researchers have been chasing since the 1950s. But the scientific experiment required the world’s most powerful lasers…