AI Teaches Itself Diplomacy
Another classic game deepens a skillset with broad applications—diplomatic savvy often needed in a pinch, crunch, or imbroglio Now that DeepMind has taught AI to master the game of Go—and furthered its advantage in chess—th.....»»
A leader in US seaweed farming preaches, teaches and builds a wider network
Bren Smith and his GreenWave organization are helping lay the foundations for a generation of seaweed-growing farmers in the United States, while working to build a network of producers and buyers......»»
Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet
OpenAI's GPT-2 running locally in Microsoft Excel teaches the basics of how LLMs work. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these days due to the rise of ChatGPT. No.....»»
China plans to send San Diego Zoo more pandas this year, reintroducing panda diplomacy
China plans to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding gesture of friendship toward the United States after a recalling nearly all the iconic bears on loan to U.S. zoos as relations soured between the two natio.....»»
Accurate quantitative analysis of information loss from digital metasurfaces caused by mutual coupling
Research by Dr. Ruiwen Shao and Prof. Junwei Wu (Institute of Electromagnetic Space, Southeast University, Nanjing, China) teaches us about how digital metasurfaces lose information......»»
Access and exclusion: What COP28 revealed about the dynamics of global climate diplomacy
With the host country of this year's COP29 climate conference already forced into an embarrassing course correction over a shocking lack of representation in its organizing committee, the issues of influence, access and exclusion at COP have never be.....»»
Researchers just unlocked ChatGPT
Researchers have developed a jailbreak process for AI chatbots that teaches each other's large language models and diverts commands against banned topics. .....»»
New high school curriculum teaches color chemistry and AI simultaneously
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a weeklong high school curriculum that helps students quickly grasp concepts in both color chemistry and artificial intelligence—while sparking their curiosity about science and the world a.....»»
The clock is ticking. Can "scientific diplomacy" save the world"s hottest sea?
Already the world's hottest coastal environment in the summer, the shallow sea between the Arabian peninsula and southwestern Iran continues to heat at a breathtaking pace......»»
Hyenas inherit power from mothers, but it"s a privilege they pay dearly for, finds 30-year study
In some monarchies, inherited power offers a ladder that can be ascended to absolute authority—be it through diplomacy, ruthlessness, or the passing of time. But in hyena monarchies, inherited power is a slippery downward slide. A study from the Ma.....»»
New dataset reveals more female diplomats in the world today
The United Nations has designated 24 June as International Day of Women in Diplomacy. A new dataset was recently published that documents the share of women and men among the world's ambassadors. The research program Gender in Diplomacy (GenDip) at t.....»»
A Proposal to Change Medical Training Will Affect Autism Care
The prevalence of autism and other developmental disorders is rising. Changing who teaches early-career pediatricians about these issues will negatively affect children’s health.....»»
Near the U.S. border, Aurora teaches self-driving trucks to navigate checkpoints
Self-driving tech company Aurora is collaborating with the U.S. Border Patrol to assess how autonomous trucks navigate checkpoints as part of its preparations for a 2024 commercial launch......»»
Robo-bird teaches young zebra finches to sing
How do young zebra finches learn to sing? A research team led by researcher Katharina Riebel has developed a "RoboFinch" to study just that. She and colleagues in the "Seeing voices" research consortium have spent the past four years designing the ro.....»»
Program teaches US Air Force personnel the fundamentals of AI
A new academic program developed at MIT aims to teach U.S. Air and Space Forces personnel to understand and utilize artificial intelligence technologies. In a recent study which the program researchers recently shared at the IEEE Frontiers in Educati.....»»
Meta researchers create AI that masters Diplomacy, tricking human players
Meta's Cicero can negotiate or persuade with natural language—just like a human. Enlarge / A screenshot of an online game of Diplomacy, including a running chat dialog, provided by a Cicero researcher. (credit: Meta AI).....»»
When diplomacy fails: After gifts, Teotihuacan turned on Maya cities
The monkey is the oldest known captive, exported primate in Mesoamerica. Enlarge (credit: Michael Schamis/Flickr/CC) Spider monkeys don’t live anywhere near the central Mexican highlands, including the area around what.....»»
Spider monkey skeleton shows the risks of ancient Maya diplomacy
The monkey is the oldest known captive, exported primate in Mesoamerica. Enlarge (credit: Michael Schamis/Flickr/CC) Spider monkeys don’t live anywhere near the central Mexican highlands, including the area around what.....»»
1,700-year-old spider monkey remains point to earliest evidence of primate captivity, translocation and gift diplomacy
The complete skeletal remains of a spider monkey—seen as an exotic curiosity in pre-Hispanic Mexico—gives researchers new evidence regarding social-political ties between two ancient powerhouses: Teotihuacán and Maya Indigenous rulers......»»
Apple most profitable company in China, thanks to US sanctions and Cook’s diplomacy
Apple is now the most profitable company in China, thanks to a combination of US sanctions against Huawei, and CEO Tim Cook’s corporate diplomacy with the government, says a new report today. The iPhone maker has escaped the Chinese government cra.....»»
Diplomacy, military power combined to settle superpower dispute over missiles in Cuba
As concerns grow that the war in Ukraine could expand into a nuclear conflict, U.S. President Joe Biden compared the current situation to the Cuban missile crisis, a Cold War confrontation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. over Soviet missiles placed.....»»