Articles by Peter Grad
Tech Xplore / Multiple 'selves' of modular agents boost AI learning
How and why we make thousands of decisions every day has long proven to be a popular area of research and commentary.
Tech Xplore / Netflix says its magenta approach beats green screen
Green screen technology has been around nearly a century. Some 45 million moviegoers were mesmerized by the special effects of "The Wizard of Oz" when it hit theaters in 1939. The magical scenes in Emerald City were the first ...
Tech Xplore / Intel reports high-rendering graphics with low-power GPUs
Setting its sights on evolving graphics processing units in a growing universe of generative AI, Intel announced the release of several papers outlining efforts it is pursuing in what observers say is a multibillion-dollar ...
Phys.org / Superconducting nanowire camera will explore brain cells, space
Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of a camera so sensitive it can detect a single photon.
Tech Xplore / GitHub's Copilot may lead to global $1.5 trillion GDP boost
A study of the soaring use of artificial intelligence in software creation says we are in the midst of "a sea change" in program development that will ultimately boost local global gross domestic product by $1.5 trillion ...
Tech Xplore / Corporate collaboration bolsters quantum encryption
Toshiba Europe and global telecommunications corporation Orange say they have achieved a significant advance in securing network communications from ever-more powerful computer attacks.
Tech Xplore / DeepMind unveils self-training RoboCat
An unknown admirer of felines once remarked, "Cats and computers both have one thing in common—they both rule the Internet."
Tech Xplore / Bugs give robotic arms a hand
Researchers at three Japanese universities exploring the potential benefits of collaborations between robots and living creatures found bugs in their project.
Tech Xplore / Study says AI data contaminates vital human input
At the turn of this century, Jeff Bezos popularized the use of mechanical turks—low-paid workers working remotely with perhaps thousands of others on tiny parts of larger computer projects—to ensure a human perspective on ...
Tech Xplore / AI models feeding on AI data may face death spiral
Large language models are generating verbal pollution that threatens to undermine the very data such models are trained on.
Tech Xplore / Google StyleDrop generates images from text
It took Da Vinci 16 years to paint the Mona Lisa. Some say he needed 12 years just to paint her lips.
Tech Xplore / Meta's AI MusicGen makes music from text prompts
The 19th century philosopher Thomas Carlyle once declared, "Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Tech Xplore / Did you hear the one about ChatGPT telling jokes? Study highlights challenges of humor for large language models
People are feverishly embracing ChatGPT as they explore new means of academic research, coding, audience research, customer support, e-mail communications, summarizing documents and job searches.
Tech Xplore / DeepMind achieves giant leap in sorting speed
Sorting, or data structuring, has been a core principle of computing operations since the first computers were developed.
Tech Xplore / Engine treatment can slash jet noise
There's a song anyone who lives near an airport or directly under the flight path of incoming and departing jets daily wishes they could play: Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence."