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Feb 7, 2023

What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science

Posted by in categories: law, robotics/AI, science

Setting boundaries for these tools, then, could be crucial, some researchers say. Edwards suggests that existing laws on discrimination and bias (as well as planned regulation of dangerous uses of AI) will help to keep the use of LLMs honest, transparent and fair. “There’s loads of law out there,” she says, “and it’s just a matter of applying it or tweaking it very slightly.”

At the same time, there is a push for LLM use to be transparently disclosed. Scholarly publishers (including the publisher of Nature) have said that scientists should disclose the use of LLMs in research papers (see also Nature 613, 612; 2023); and teachers have said they expect similar behaviour from their students. The journal Science has gone further, saying that no text generated by ChatGPT or any other AI tool can be used in a paper5.

One key technical question is whether AI-generated content can be spotted easily. Many researchers are working on this, with the central idea to use LLMs themselves to spot the output of AI-created text.

Feb 7, 2023

Underdog technologies gain ground in quantum-computing race

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, quantum physics

Individual atoms trapped by optical ‘tweezers’ are emerging as a promising computational platform.

Feb 7, 2023

A New AI Research From MIT Reduces Variance in Denoising Score-Matching, Improving Image Quality, Stability, and Training Speed in Diffusion Models

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Diffusion models have recently produced outstanding results on various generating tasks, including the creation of images, 3D point clouds, and molecular conformers. Ito stochastic differential equations (SDE) are a unified framework that can incorporate these models. The models acquire knowledge of time-dependent score fields through score-matching, which later directs the reverse SDE during generative sampling. Variance-exploding (VE) and variance-preserving (VP) SDE are common diffusion models. EDM offers the finest performance to date by expanding on these compositions. The existing training method for diffusion models can still be enhanced, despite achieving outstanding empirical results.

The Stable Target Field (STF) objective is a generalized variation of the denoising score-matching objective. Particularly, the high volatility of the denoising score matching (DSM) objective’s training targets can result in subpar performance. They divide the score field into three regimes to comprehend the cause of this volatility better. According to their investigation, the phenomenon mostly occurs in the intermediate regime, defined by various modes or data points having a similar impact on the scores. In other words, under this regime, it is still being determined where the noisy samples produced throughout the forward process originated. Figure 1(a) illustrates the differences between the DSM and their proposed STF objectives.

Figure 1: Examples of the DSM objective’s and our suggested STF objective’s contrasts.

Feb 7, 2023

Ultra-rare ‘rainbow clouds’ light up the Arctic Circle like auroras in stunning new photos

Posted by in category: futurism

Rare clouds that give off bright, multi-colored light like an aurora were recently spotted at multiple locations in the Arctic. But what causes them?

Feb 7, 2023

Scientists Made A New Kind Of Ice That Might Exist On Distant Moons

Posted by in category: space

The ‘amorphous’ solid is denser and could be water ‘frozen in time’.

Feb 7, 2023

Arrows of Time

Posted by in categories: alien life, physics

The human mind has long grappled with the elusive nature of time: what it is, how to record it, how it regulates life, and whether it exists as a fundamental building block of the universe. This timeline traces our evolving understanding of time through a history of observations in CULTURE, PHYSICS, TIMEKEEPING and BIOLOGY.

Australia’s first inhabitants, the ancestors of today’s aboriginal peoples, are believed to have embraced a timeless view of nature, in which the present and past are intimately connected. The spirits of long-dead ancestors, for example, were believed to inhabit the living. These spirits reflected a long-ago golden age sometimes known as the Dreamtime.

Feb 7, 2023

NASA to test nuclear rocket engine that could take humans to Mars in 45 days

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, space travel

This is the first time a nuclear powered engine has been tested in fifty years.

Feb 7, 2023

Google is holding an event about search and AI on February 8th

Posted by in categories: mapping, robotics/AI

It’s a 40-minute livestream.

Feb 7, 2023

NASA scientists ‘weigh’ a white dwarf for the first time using a space-time trick predicted by Einstein

Posted by in category: space

NASA astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the mass of a white dwarf, an important step for understanding how stars die.

Feb 7, 2023

‘1-In-10-Billion’ Star System is Doomed to Explode in a Fiery Kilonova

Posted by in category: space

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare star system that is doomed to explode in a ‘kilonova’ caused by the merger of two neutron stars.