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This billion-dollar firm plans to build giant quantum computers from light. Can it succeed?
A prototype cryogenic cabinet in which PsiQuantum is testing quantum computing using light in silicon chips.Credit: PsiQuantum During…
Spain’s flash floods reveal a desperate need for improved mitigation efforts
Nature, Published online: 26 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03825-0 In the wake of one of Europe’s biggest natural disasters in…
Act now to stop millions of research papers from disappearing
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, UK, one of the United Kingdom’s ‘legal deposit’ libraries. Access…
Why we are all lab rats in the digital world
Whenever we go online, we might find ourselves part of an experiment — without knowing it. Digital platforms…
Don’t blame search engines for sending users to unreliable sites
Search-engine algorithms are not the main force steering people towards misinformation — Internet users’ own clicks are, according…
Study reveals three ways to disappear down a Wikipedia rabbit hole
Data from hundreds of thousands of browsing sessions is revealing how people navigate Wikipedia. Credit: Sascha Steinbach/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock An…
Scalable watermarking for identifying large language model outputs
Detailed SynthID-Text method In this section, we provide a detailed description of SynthID-Text. The LLM distribution Most LLMs…
Larger and more instructable language models become less reliable
Figure 2 shows the results of a selection of models in the GPT and LLaMA families, increasingly scaled…
the hidden risks of AI
Although ChatGPT and other generative AI chatbots are transformative tools, risks to privacy and content ownership are baked…
Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy
Semantic entropy as a strategy for overcoming confabulation builds on probabilistic tools for uncertainty estimation. It can be…