Interesting Engineering

Breakthrough model helps robots learn unseen tasks, paves way for adaptive intelligence

New AI model enable robots to perform unseen tasks, hinting at a shift toward general-purpose robotic intelligence.

This Sam Altman-Backed $1.8 Billion Startup Bets AI Can Get Drugs Through Clinical Trials Faster

Formation Bio CEO Ben Liu is convinced that drug discovery isn’t the bottleneck in getting medicines to market—it’s going ...
Nature

AI models ‘subliminally’ transmit biases when training other systems

Using artificial-intelligence to teach other models can be cheaper and faster than building them from scratch, but this ...
IEEE

Forecasting and Performance Analysis of Energy Production in Solar Power Plants Using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Random Forest Models

Abstract: The rapid increase in energy demand and the disadvantages of using fossil fuels in electricity production have led to a greater emphasis on renewable energy sources. Consequently, research ...
IEEE

Derm-T2IM: Harnessing Synthetic Skin Lesion Data via Stable Diffusion Models for Enhanced Skin Disease Classification using ViT and CNN

Abstract: This study explores the utilization of Dermatoscopic synthetic data generated through stable diffusion models as a strategy for enhancing the robustness of machine learning model training.
Scientific American

Mathematicians can’t agree on whether 0.999... equals 1

This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly newsletter that explores the joys and peculiarities of math. Sign up today for a weekly math essay and puzzle in your email inbox. Countless debates ...
Wall Street Journal

Even if You’re Not Driving, You’re Probably Using Oil

Oil does a lot more than fill gas tanks. Petroleum is used to make thousands of products, from golf balls to children’s toys and shampoo. The amount varies widely—goods with lots of plastic might have ...