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Children learn language on a fraction of the data AI needs. Scientists want to know why.
A toddler masters grammar after hearing roughly 10 million words. A large language model may consume 15 trillion. Closing that gap could reshape how AI is built.
A New Trick Slashes the Cost of Shrinking Giant AI Models
Researchers have found a way to train smaller, cheaper AI models from giant ones using a fraction of the memory previously required, opening the door to experiments that once needed a warehouse of hardware.
Four startups betting the next wave of AI runs on something better than transformers
The neural network design powering every major chatbot is hitting real limits. A small group of companies thinks it has found a way around them.
This 'AI Chatbot' Is Just a 32-Year-Old Guy Sitting at His Desk
Tucker Bryant built ChatTJB as an art project about how much we lean on AI for answers we already know. It received 30,000 questions in its first weeks. He is still drawing frogs eating spaghetti.
GraphRAG vs. plain RAG: the honest scorecard
A knowledge graph can make AI answers far better, but only for certain questions, and the indexing bill can shock you. Here is what five studies actually found.
Typos on Purpose: How Writers Are Fighting Back Against AI Prose
Novelists, editors and marketers are deliberately bending grammar, ditching em dashes and leaning into first-person mess to prove a human wrote the words.
AI hiring tools are more likely to stereotype job applicants than humans are, new research finds
A Princeton and University of Chicago study put ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini through a simulated hiring game. The models quickly sorted fictional ethnic groups into job categories and did it far more aggressively than human test subjects did.