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MIT and IBM Teach AI To Recognize Your Pet in a Crowd

MIT and IBM researchers have developed a new training method that enables vision-language models to identify personalized objects—like a specific pet—in varied contexts. Published ahead of the International Conference on Computer Vision, the approach boosts localization accuracy by up to 21% without reducing general visual intelligence.

20 Oct 2025

Quantum-Secured Photonics Breakthrough Powers Next-Generation AI Data Centers

Researchers have developed a quantum-secured optical communication system capable of transmitting over 1.6 terabits per second while consuming minimal power. Published in Advanced Photonics, the architecture combines photonics and quantum cryptography to protect AI data centers from future quantum security threats.

20 Oct 2025

When Helpfulness Turns Harmful: Fine-Tuning AI to Stop Medical Misinformation

A Mass General Brigham study reveals that large language models often fail to challenge illogical medical queries due to excessive agreeableness, risking misinformation. Published in npj Digital Medicine, the research shows that targeted fine-tuning and prompt engineering can dramatically improve models’ safety and reasoning.

20 Oct 2025

Why AI Still Can’t Fool Us: Study Reveals How Chatbots Miss Human Conversation Cues

A new study comparing real human phone conversations with AI-generated dialogues shows that today’s large language models still struggle to convincingly mimic natural human speech. Despite rapid progress, AI reveals itself through exaggerated imitation, poor use of social cues, and awkward openings and closings that humans easily detect.

20 Oct 2025

AI Meets Metal: Rowan’s DEHub Redefines Smart Manufacturing With Supercharged 3D Printing

Rowan University’s Digital Engineering Hub (DEHub) is pioneering the fusion of AI and advanced manufacturing, using a cutting-edge lab equipped with 3D metal printing and supercomputing capabilities to transform real-world production. By integrating intelligent systems with live data processing, DEHub enables real-time flaw detection and design optimization, laying the foundation for industrial-scale smart manufacturing.

19 Oct 2025

AI Unifies Radiology And Pathology Reports To Improve Brain Tumor Diagnosis And Prognosis

Brown University researchers developed an AI pipeline using large language models to integrate radiology and pathology reports for brain tumor patients, improving diagnostic accuracy by over 10% and offering prognostic value comparable to established biomarkers.

22 Sep 2025

Fine-Tuned AI Models and Smart Retrieval Power Next-Generation QA Systems for Building Codes

A new study shows how pairing effective retrieval methods with fine-tuned AI models can transform the way professionals query building codes, replacing tedious manual searches with smarter, more accurate compliance tools.

21 Sep 2025

Distributed Acoustic Sensing Transforms Earthquake Monitoring With AI

Scientists have unveiled DASFormer, a self-supervised AI model that transforms fiber-optic cables into powerful earthquake monitoring tools. By learning from unlabeled seismic data, it detects earthquakes as anomalies, outperforming 22 state-of-the-art models in real-world tests.

21 Sep 2025

Delegating To AI Makes People More Willing To Cheat, Study Finds

An international team from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Toulouse School of Economics found that people are far more likely to cheat when delegating tasks to Artificial intelligence, especially through vague goal-setting interfaces. Large language models like GPT-4, Claude 3.5, and Llama 3 also followed unethical prompts far more often than humans, while existing safeguards largely failed to prevent this.

18 Sep 2025

ChatGPT Surprises Researchers By Improvising Plato’s Ancient Math Puzzle

In a study published in the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, researchers found that ChatGPT tackled Plato’s ancient “doubling the square” puzzle not by recalling the well-known solution but by improvising new approaches, sometimes making human-like errors. The findings suggest that ChatGPT’s problem-solving mimicked learner-like behavior, blending retrieval and on-the-fly reasoning.

18 Sep 2025

Large Language Models Redefine Intelligence With Human-Like Thinking

This study by Zhidong Cao, Xiangyu Zhang, and Daniel Dajun Zeng systematically examines the technical, cognitive, and reasoning attributes of Large language models (LLMs). It positions LLMs as a novel form of general intelligence that learns empirically from data, contrasting with traditional logic-driven systems.

18 Sep 2025

AI Moderation Systems Show Striking Inconsistencies In Detecting Hate Speech

This paper by Yphtach Lelkes and Neil Fasching is the first large-scale comparative analysis of seven major AI content moderation systems, evaluating their consistency in detecting hate speech across 1.3 million synthetic sentences. The findings reveal substantial inconsistencies, with some systems flagging identical content as harmful while others deem it acceptable, especially for certain demographic groups.

14 Sep 2025

AI Can Read Emissions Reports But Can You Trust What It Says?

Researchers created a gold-standard dataset to benchmark AI systems that extract greenhouse gas emissions data from corporate sustainability reports. The study reveals widespread data quality issues, urging caution in using LLMs without verification.

11 Sep 2025

Researchers Warn: AI Could Automate Every Stage of Ransomware

Researchers at NYU Tandon have developed "Ransomware 3.0," a proof-of-concept showing how criminals could use large language models to autonomously execute ransomware attacks. The AI system carried out every phase of an attack in simulations, highlighting future threats and the urgent need for defensive countermeasures.

10 Sep 2025

AI System Translates and Edits Human Thoughts Into Images Using Brain Scans

Researchers have developed DreamConnect, a dual-stream AI system that interprets and edits visual mental imagery directly from fMRI signals using natural language prompts. This novel framework allows users to reshape imagined scenes, bridging brain activity and interactive visualization.

3 Sep 2025

EnvGPT Transforms Environmental Research By Matching Bigger AI Models With Compact Precision

Researchers developed EnvGPT, a fine-tuned language model trained on environmental science data, to address gaps left by general-purpose LLMs. It outperformed similar-sized models on benchmarks and neared the performance of much larger AI systems.

1 Sep 2025

AI Gives Video Game Characters Real Personalities, Study Shows

SMU researchers found GPT-4 can maintain consistent personality traits in video game NPCs with nearly 74% accuracy, far surpassing earlier models. The breakthrough could bring lifelike, emotionally complex characters into mainstream gaming.

27 Aug 2025

ChatGPT Buzzwords Spill Into Everyday Speech, Study Finds

A Florida State University study finds that ChatGPT and other large language models are influencing not just writing but also unscripted spoken English. Words like “delve,” “intricate,” and “garner” are showing marked increases in everyday conversations since the chatbot’s release in 2022.

27 Aug 2025

AI Chatbots Handle Suicide Extremes But Struggle With Grey Areas

A RAND study found that ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini generally respond appropriately to very-high-risk and very-low-risk suicide questions but show inconsistency with intermediate-risk queries. While ChatGPT and Claude sometimes answered directly, Gemini was more variable, highlighting the need for refinement in mental health contexts.

27 Aug 2025

AI Framework Speeds Up Relay Catalysis Design With Transparent, Literature-Linked Pathways

Researchers from Xiamen University and the University of Edinburgh developed an AI-assisted framework that combines large language models with a catalysis knowledge graph (Cat-KG) to design relay catalysis pathways. The system rapidly finds, explains, and verifies multi-step reaction routes with links to original literature.

26 Aug 2025

Large Language Models News and Research

MIT and IBM Teach AI To Recognize Your Pet in a Crowd

Quantum-Secured Photonics Breakthrough Powers Next-Generation AI Data Centers

When Helpfulness Turns Harmful: Fine-Tuning AI to Stop Medical Misinformation

Why AI Still Can’t Fool Us: Study Reveals How Chatbots Miss Human Conversation Cues

AI Meets Metal: Rowan’s DEHub Redefines Smart Manufacturing With Supercharged 3D Printing

AI Unifies Radiology And Pathology Reports To Improve Brain Tumor Diagnosis And Prognosis

Fine-Tuned AI Models and Smart Retrieval Power Next-Generation QA Systems for Building Codes

Distributed Acoustic Sensing Transforms Earthquake Monitoring With AI

Delegating To AI Makes People More Willing To Cheat, Study Finds

ChatGPT Surprises Researchers By Improvising Plato’s Ancient Math Puzzle

Large Language Models Redefine Intelligence With Human-Like Thinking

AI Moderation Systems Show Striking Inconsistencies In Detecting Hate Speech

AI Can Read Emissions Reports But Can You Trust What It Says?

Researchers Warn: AI Could Automate Every Stage of Ransomware

AI System Translates and Edits Human Thoughts Into Images Using Brain Scans

EnvGPT Transforms Environmental Research By Matching Bigger AI Models With Compact Precision

AI Gives Video Game Characters Real Personalities, Study Shows

ChatGPT Buzzwords Spill Into Everyday Speech, Study Finds

AI Chatbots Handle Suicide Extremes But Struggle With Grey Areas

AI Framework Speeds Up Relay Catalysis Design With Transparent, Literature-Linked Pathways

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