Why Are We Still So Afraid of Using the Grumpy Old Period?

Exclamation marks, ellipses and ‘haha’ can’t fix our growing inability to communicate.

Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?

Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it ...
IEEE

Improved Successive Cancelation List Decoding for Polar Codes Using Vulnerable Frozen Bits LLRs

Abstract: Successive cancelation list (SCL) decoding for polar codes has the ability to achieve Shannon capacity over the binary discrete memoryless channel. However, a large list size is required to ...
IEEE

On the Use of Large Language Models to Generate Capability Ontologies

Abstract: Capability ontologies are increasingly used to model functionalities of systems or machines. The creation of such onto-logical models with all properties and constraints of capabilities is ...
Wired

People Are Using Sora 2 to Make Disturbing Videos With AI-Generated Kids

On October 7, a TikTok account named @fujitiva48 posed a provocative question alongside their latest video. “What are your thoughts on this new toy for little kids?” they asked over 2,000 viewers, who ...
Reuters

Zara turns to AI to generate fashion imagery using real-life models

LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Zara has become the latest fast-fashion retailer to use AI to help create new images of real models in different outfits, speeding up the production process as part of an ...