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Month: November 2024

Internet

Facebook and Instagram users in Europe can opt for less personalized ads

November 12, 2024 Tech Xplore

Facebook and Instagram users in Europe will get the option to see less personalized ads if they don’t want to pay for an ad-free subscription, social media company Meta said Tuesday, bowing to pressure from […]

Math

Testing AI systems on hard math problems shows they still perform very poorly

November 12, 2024 Phys Org

A team of AI researchers and mathematicians affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and the U.K. has developed a math benchmark that allows scientists to test the ability of AI systems to solve exceptionally […]

Computers

New open-source Python package developed for efficient multi-source evidence fusion

November 11, 2024 Tech Xplore

Researchers from Peking University have developed ERTool, an open-source Python package designed to simplify the implementation of the Evidential Reasoning (ER) approach for multi-source evidence fusion. This tool addresses the challenges of integrating data from […]

Computers

AI is universally bad at knowing when to chime in during a conversation: Researchers discover some of the root causes

November 11, 2024 Tech Xplore

When you have a conversation today, notice the natural points when the exchange leaves open the opportunity for the other person to chime in. If their timing is off, they might be taken as overly […]

Internet

Governments are pushing teen social media bans—but behind the scenes is a messy fight over science

November 9, 2024 Tech Xplore

As governments worldwide move to restrict teenagers’ access to smartphones and social media, a fierce scientific debate has erupted over whether these digital technologies actually harm young people’s mental health.This article was originally published on […]

Computers

Quantum encoding methods could slash circuit complexity in machine learning

November 8, 2024 Tech Xplore

A recent study by researchers from CSIRO and the University of Melbourne has made progress in quantum machine learning, a field aimed at achieving quantum advantage to outperform classical machine learning.This article was originally published […]

Internet

When should kids start using social media? Australia’s government proposes age limit of 16

November 7, 2024 Tech Xplore

The Australian government announced on Thursday what it described as world-leading legislation that would institute an age limit of 16 years for children to start using social media, and hold platforms responsible for ensuring compliance.This […]

Math

‘Shallow’ sports and ‘deep’ social hierarchies: Not all pecking orders are created equally

November 6, 2024 Phys Org

University of Michigan researchers have added a new dimension to the mathematics used to predict the outcomes of all manner of competitions, including sports, games and social hierarchies in both humans and animals.This article was […]

Math

Probability training: Preventing errors of reasoning in medicine and law

November 6, 2024 Phys Org

How trustworthy is a positive HIV test result? How probable is an actual infection when the test is positive? Even professionals often get such questions wrong, which can lead to misdiagnoses and unnecessary surgeries.This article […]

Computers

How close are we to an accurate AI fake news detector?

November 6, 2024 Tech Xplore

In the ambitious pursuit to tackle the harms from false content on social media and news websites, data scientists are getting creative.This article was originally published on this website.

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