A Swiss firm’s software mines the world’s knowledge for patent opportunities(spectrum.ieee.org)

10 points by geox 2 years ago | 5 comments

Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns (2021)(spectrum.ieee.org)

67 points by jrepinc 3 years ago | 27 comments

Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades(spectrum.ieee.org)

227 points by barqawiz 10 months ago | 224 comments

Rodney Brooks on GPT-4(spectrum.ieee.org)

241 points by marshblocker 3 years ago | 292 comments

Plasmonic Modulators Can Break the Wireless Terahertz Barrier(spectrum.ieee.org)

13 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 8 comments

AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design(spectrum.ieee.org)

251 points by Brajeshwar 4 months ago | 162 comments

The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press(windowsread.me)

495 points by Leftium 1 year ago | 216 comments

A Windows ReadMe newsletter post by Chris Hoffman recommending YouTube downloader tools and explaining how Google pressure keeps tech outlets from covering them.

DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order(reuters.com)

547 points by cmrdporcupine 7 days ago | 496 comments

Reuters news article about a DHS order banning the Chinese AI DeepSeek from U.S. federal civilian agency IT systems; the capture shows only a device verification screen.

Linux phones are more important now than ever(feddit.org)

627 points by wicket 1 year ago | 394 comments

A Lemmy forum post arguing Linux phone development must accelerate as Android becomes more closed, citing AOSP changes and bootloader lock removals.

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance(larsfaye.com)

490 points by larsfaye 2 months ago | 479 comments

Blog essay by Lars Faye arguing that reliance on AI coding tools removes the friction needed to develop long-term programming expertise.

ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others(ctvnews.ca)

365 points by randycupertino 11 months ago | 399 comments

CTV News article reporting that OpenAI updated ChatGPT usage policies to disallow providing tailored legal and medical advice.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.