New technologies like AI come with big claims – borrowing the scientific concept of validity can help cut through the hype

Scientists across all fields make various types of claims about their innovations. Validity tests check whether they deliver ...
Communications of the ACM

Testing Data Stories with Simulated Audiences

In other words, we can use AI as a simulated audience: a stand-in that reacts to a data story as if it were a specific type ...
Barron's

Fed Model Shows Strong Growth. Is Government Shutdown Distorting Data?

The Atlanta Fed’s closely watched GDPNow model shows the U.S. economy surging ahead at a 3.9% annualized growth rate for the third quarter of the year, a strong reading that conflicts with some ...
Survival World on MSN

Experts Question ‘Miracle Cancer Study’ Linking COVID Vaccine to Longer Survival

University of Florida Health writer Michelle Jaffee reports a bold finding: cancer patients who got a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Impact of Library Resource Utilization on Secondary School Students’ Performance in Chemistry at Uasin Gishu County, Kenya ()

Chepkwony, I. and Keter, J. (2025) Impact of Library Resource Utilization on Secondary School Students’ Performance in Chemistry at Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 13, ...
Hosted on MSN

The Dark Forest Hypothesis

The Fermi Paradox is one of the biggest mysteries in the search for life beyond Earth. If the universe should be teeming with life, where are all the intelligent civilizations? One proposed answer is ...
IEEE

PriDM: Effective and Universal Private Data Recovery via Diffusion Models

Abstract: Deep models excel in analyzing image data. However, recent studies on Black-Box Model Inversion (MI) Attacks against image models have revealed the potential to recover concealed (via ...
IEEE

Exploring the Knowledge Mismatch Hypothesis: Hallucination Propensity in Small Models Fine-tuned on Data from Larger Models

Abstract: Recently, there has been an explosion of large language models created through fine-tuning with data from larger models. These small models able to produce outputs that appear qualitatively ...
TweakTown

Microsoft's Gaming Copilot watches you game and captures that data for 'model training'

TL;DR: Microsoft's Windows 11 Xbox App includes a Gaming Copilot AI assistant that captures and analyzes PC gaming via screenshots to train its AI models. Users should review and disable these ...
Journal of Medical Internet Research

Assessing Large Language Models in Building a Structured Dataset From AskDocs Subreddit Data: Methodological Study

Methods: We developed a dataset of Reddit posts from r/AskDocs by extracting key information via human annotators. Then using specially engineered prompts we used state-of-the-art Large Language ...
marktechpost

How to Design a Fully Functional Enterprise AI Assistant with Retrieval Augmentation and Policy Guardrails Using Open Source AI Models

In this tutorial, we explore how we can build a compact yet powerful Enterprise AI assistant that runs effortlessly on Colab. We start by integrating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using FAISS ...
Wall Street Journal

Inside Priscilla Chan’s Multibillion-Dollar Wager to Outsmart Disease

WSJ. Magazine’s annual Innovators issue recognizes groundbreaking talents from a range of disciplines. Priscilla Chan is this year’s philanthropy innovator. Check back for more cover stars through ...