Baidu begins testing autonomous vehicles in London with Lyft and Freenow
Chinese tech company Baidu has started testing autonomous vehicles in London as part of its partnership with Lyft and Freenow, the German taxi and multi-mobility app owned by Lyft.
» readCenturies-old astronomical texts translated into modern English for first time
A new translation project has made centuries-old astronomical texts accessible to modern readers, with many appearing in English for the first time.
» readCrackdown on sexual deepfakes slowly advances as platforms face scrutiny
A new report from the European nonprofit AI Forensics has revealed that Hugging Face, a major open-source AI platform, is being widely used to generate nonconsensual sexual deepfakes.
» readNeutrino-1 8B model ships with ultra-compact ternary weights for efficient serving
A new 8.19-billion-parameter language model, Neutrino-1 8B, was released by its developers as a single 3.88 GB file using a proprietary ternary-family weight format that is eight times smaller than standard fp16 storage.
» readThe illusion of explanatory depth: Why you know less than you think about everyday objects
The illusion of explanatory depth describes the common human tendency to overestimate one's own understanding of how things work, according to behavioral scientists.
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