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Machine Learning Models Rival Some Human Translators
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (276+ words) Experts with 10-plus years of experience outperformed the LLM This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. A few years ago, humans were clearly superior to machine learning algorithms in tasks such…...
How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful?
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (942+ words) Brad Knox researches the benefits and risks of AI companions For a different perspective on AI companions, see our Q&A with Jaime Banks: How Do You Define an AI Companion? Novel technology is often a double-edged sword. New capabilities…...
How Do You Define an AI Companion?
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (491+ words) Jaime Banks studies the growing relationships between humans and chatbots For a different perspective on AI companions, see our Q&A with Brad Knox: How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful? AI models intended to provide companionship for humans…...
IEEE Spectrum - The world's leading engineering magazine
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (118+ words) Even if Artemis II succeeds, significant challenges threaten Artemis III There's a crisis in particle physics. Researchers hope AI can help. Flow's headset is the first tDCS device approved by the FDA Startup offers one-week turnaround for quantum simulation chips…...
Bulk RRAM Could Be AI’s Memory Wall Solution
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (697+ words) An 8-layer stack of bulk RRAM runs a continually-learning neural network In UCSD's 3D-stacked bulk RRAM, each cell can hold a 6-bit value. The hunt is on for anything that can surmount AI's perennial memory wall'even quick models are bogged…...
How Will the Tech Industry Handle the DRAM Shortage?
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (947+ words) Despite new fabs and new technology, prices will stay high Samuel K. Moore is IEEE Spectrum's semiconductor editor. SK Hynix's 12-layer HBM4 memory chips on display at the SK AI Summit in Seoul, South Korea, on 3 November 2025. The largest AI hardware companies…...
3D Modeling for Low-Vision Programmers Moves Beyond Code
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (541+ words) A11yShape lets blind coders design and verify models on their own Blind and low-vision programmers can use a new program, A11yShape, to help them design and manipulate 3D objects as part of their coding work. Blind and low-vision programmers previously had to rely…...
Like Your Kids, Robots Learn by Doing
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (176+ words) Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Evan Ackerman is IEEE Spectrum's robotics editor. Training autonomous robots in factory settings for eventual use in manufacturing facilities includes the robots learning to sort crates on a warehouse conveyor belt. Video Friday…...
Can Quantum Twins Solve Complex Material Problems?
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (337+ words) Startup offers one-week turnaround for quantum simulation chips Dina Genkina is the computing and hardware editor at IEEE Spectrum "Instead of using qubits, as you would typically in a quantum computer, we just directly encode the problem into the geometry…...
Can AI Find Physics Beyond the Standard Model?
1+ week, 2+ day ago (722+ words) The February issue of IEEE Spectrum is here! There's a crisis in particle physics. Researchers hope AI can help. This historic cloud-chamber image shows the spiral tracks of charged particles'an early, visual way physicists studied the subatomic world. Four years…...