Artificial Intelligence

Images from the paper 'Monitoring Viewer Attention During Online Ads' (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.06237)

April 9, 2025

Looking for ‘Owls and Lizards’ in an Advertiser’s Audience

Since the online advertising sector is estimated to have spent $740.3 billion USD in 2023, it’s easy to understand why advertising companies invest considerable resources into...

April 8, 2025

By Dr. Tehseen Zia

The Rise of AI in Scientific Discoveries: Can AI Truly Think Outside the Box?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly, with its applications spreading across industries such as healthcare, finance, education, and entertainment. Among the most exciting areas for AI...

Created with ChatGPT-4o and Adobe Firefly

April 8, 2025

By Martin Anderson

JPEG AI Blurs the Line Between Real and Synthetic

In February of this year, the JPEG AI international standard was published, after several years of research aimed at using machine learning techniques to produce a...

April 6, 2025

By Alex McFarland

Open-Source AI Strikes Back With Meta’s Llama 4

In the past few years, the AI world has shifted from a culture of open collaboration to one dominated by closely guarded proprietary systems. OpenAI –...

Wendy’s Use of AI for Drive-Thru Orders: Is AI the Future of Fast Food?

April 6, 2025

By Dr. Assad Abbas

Wendy’s Use of AI for Drive-Thru Orders: Is AI the Future of Fast Food?

The fast-food industry is evolving, and technology is at the center of this transformation. Wendy’s, in partnership with Google Cloud, has introduced FreshAI, an AI-powered ordering...

April 5, 2025

By Dr. Tehseen Zia

The Rise of Small Reasoning Models: Can Compact AI Match GPT-Level Reasoning?

In recent years, the AI field has been captivated by the success of large language models (LLMs). Initially designed for natural language processing, these models have...

Examples from the DreamActor project page.

April 4, 2025

By Martin Anderson

A Notable Advance in Human-Driven AI Video

Note: The project page for this work includes 33 autoplaying high-res videos totaling half a gigabyte, which destabilized my system on load. For this reason, I...

April 3, 2025

By Dr. Tehseen Zia

How Does Claude Think? Anthropic’s Quest to Unlock AI’s Black Box

Large language models (LLMs) like Claude have changed the way we use technology. They power tools like chatbots, help write essays and even create poetry. But...

Elon Musk’s DOGE Initiative: Can AI Decide Which Federal Jobs to Cut?

April 2, 2025

By Dr. Assad Abbas

Elon Musk’s DOGE Initiative: Can AI Decide Which Federal Jobs to Cut?

Imagine a world where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not only driving cars or recognizing faces but also determining which government jobs are essential and which should...

Montage of illustrations from the paper 'Detecting Localized Deepfake Manipulations Using Action Unit-Guided Video Representations' (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22121)

April 2, 2025

By Martin Anderson

Exposing Small but Significant AI Edits in Real Video

In 2019, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi was the subject of a targeted and pretty low-tech deepfake-style attack, when real video of her was...

Image of a robot with popcorn in a cinema, ChatGPt-4+ and Adobe Firefly.

April 1, 2025

By Martin Anderson

Teaching AI to Give Better Video Critiques

While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) can be useful aides in interpreting some of the more arcane or challenging submissions in computer vision literature, there’s one area...

March 31, 2025

By Alex McFarland

Less Is More: Why Retrieving Fewer Documents Can Improve AI Answers

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is an approach to building AI systems that combines a language model with an external knowledge source. In simple terms, the AI first...

Gemma 3: Google’s Answer to Affordable, Powerful AI for the Real World

March 31, 2025

By Dr. Assad Abbas

Gemma 3: Google’s Answer to Affordable, Powerful AI for the Real World

The AI model market is growing quickly, with companies like Google, Meta, and OpenAI leading the way in developing new AI technologies. Google’s Gemma 3 has...

March 29, 2025

By Dr. Tehseen Zia

How OpenAI’s o3, Grok 3, DeepSeek R1, Gemini 2.0, and Claude 3.7 Differ in Their Reasoning Approaches

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving from simple text prediction systems into advanced reasoning engines capable of tackling complex challenges. Initially designed to predict the...

March 28, 2025

By Zac Amos

What AI Is Teaching Us About Ancient Civilizations

While teaching humans about their ancient civilizations may seem like an odd job for artificial intelligence, it has potential. Traditionally, archeological surveys and decipherment have been...

Unite.AI

Looking for ‘Owls and Lizards’ in an Advertiser’s Audience

The Rise of AI in Scientific Discoveries: Can AI Truly Think Outside the Box?

JPEG AI Blurs the Line Between Real and Synthetic

Open-Source AI Strikes Back With Meta’s Llama 4

Wendy’s Use of AI for Drive-Thru Orders: Is AI the Future of Fast Food?

The Rise of Small Reasoning Models: Can Compact AI Match GPT-Level Reasoning?

A Notable Advance in Human-Driven AI Video

How Does Claude Think? Anthropic’s Quest to Unlock AI’s Black Box

Elon Musk’s DOGE Initiative: Can AI Decide Which Federal Jobs to Cut?

Exposing Small but Significant AI Edits in Real Video

Teaching AI to Give Better Video Critiques

Less Is More: Why Retrieving Fewer Documents Can Improve AI Answers

Gemma 3: Google’s Answer to Affordable, Powerful AI for the Real World

How OpenAI’s o3, Grok 3, DeepSeek R1, Gemini 2.0, and Claude 3.7 Differ in Their Reasoning Approaches

What AI Is Teaching Us About Ancient Civilizations