Can training your brain boost immune response? Vaccination study highlights power of positive thinking

Training people to activate a part of the brain linked to reward and positive expectations may be associated with an increase ...
Tech Xplore

New memristor training method slashes AI energy use by six orders of magnitude

In a Nature Communications study, researchers from China have developed an error-aware probabilistic update (EaPU) method ...
eLife

Human EEG and artificial neural networks reveal disentangled representations and processing timelines of object real-world size and depth in natural images

Remarkably, human brains have the ability to accurately perceive and process the real-world size of objects, despite vast differences in distance and perspective. While previous studies have delved ...
The New Yorker

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

Dario Amodei, the C.E.O. of the artificial-intelligence company Anthropic, has been predicting that an A.I. “smarter than a Nobel Prize winner” in such fields as biology, math, engineering, and ...
bjo.bmj

Neural network for natural language processing to determine treatment urgency in an ophthalmology emergency department

Background In an ophthalmology emergency department, determining treatment urgency is crucial for patient safety and the efficient use of resources. The aim of this study was to use artificial ...
Science Daily

Cornell researchers build first ‘microwave brain’ on a chip

Cornell engineers have built the first fully integrated “microwave brain” — a silicon microchip that can process ultrafast data and wireless signals at the same time, while using less than 200 ...
Phys.org

Self-learning neural network cracks iconic black holes

A team of astronomers led by Michael Janssen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic black hole data sets. Based on the network and data from the ...
IEEE

Abnormal Condition Recognition of Blast Furnace Ironmaking Process Based on Time Series—Image Jointly Driven Deep Neural Network

Abstract: Ensuring the accurate recognition of blast furnace (BF) conditions is crucial for maintaining the stability of blast furnace ironmaking process (BFIP). However, many research frequently ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

AI is good at weather forecasting. Can it predict freak weather events?

Increasingly, AI models are able make short-term weather forecasts with surprising accuracy. But neural networks only predict based on patterns from the past—what happens when the weather does ...
Frontiers

The diagnostic value of convolutional neural networks in thyroid cancer detection using ultrasound images

Objective: To extract and analyze the image features of two-dimensional ultrasound images and elastic images of four thyroid nodules by radiomics, and then further convolution processing to construct ...