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LLMs have tons of parameters, but what is a parameter?

Large language models are routinely described in terms of their size, with figures like 7 billion or 70 billion parameters ...
Nature

Chatbots in therapy: do AI models really have 'trauma'?

Chatbots put through psychotherapy report trauma and abuse. Authors say models are doing more than role play, but researchers ...
WXOW News 19

Grant funding supports brain-based mental health training in La Crosse schools

The School District of La Crosse is expanding mental health training for educators after receiving $65,000 in grant funding ...

Wiggle Butt Academy Launches ‘Paw It Forward’ Partnership with Operation Kindness and Purrfect Paws University

A Paw It Forward Collaboration Helping New Pet Parents & Pets Waiting for Their Families This partnership turns everyday training into life-saving impact. Families are not just helping their own pet ...

Leadership Execution Institute Defines Evaluation Framework Explaining Why Training Cannot Eliminate Supervisor Drift

Independent analysis explains why episodic leadership training fails to sustain behavioral consistency and introduces an ...

Sycophancy in Al models Explained by Anthropic & Simple Prompts to Fix It

Worried about AI that always agrees? Learn why models do this, plus prompts for counterarguments and sources to get more ...
InsideBitcoins

When Machines Take the Gamble: AI Models Show Surprisingly Human Addiction Patterns

While AI models may exhibit addiction-like behaviors, the technology is also proving to be a powerful ally in combating real ...
Tech Xplore

Reinforcement learning accelerates model-free training of optical AI systems

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...
GitHub

HtmlRAG: HTML is Better Than Plain Text for Modeling Retrieval Results in RAG Systems

We propose HtmlRAG, which uses HTML instead of plain text as the format of external knowledge in RAG systems. To tackle the long context brought by HTML, we propose Lossless HTML Cleaning and Two-Step ...
eLife

A differentiable model for optimizing the genetic drivers of synaptogenesis

This study presents SynaptoGen, a differentiable extension of connectome models that links gene expression, protein-protein interaction probabilities, synaptic multiplicity, and synaptic weights, and ...
IEEE

Modeling Pedestrian Crossing Behavior: A Reinforcement Learning Approach With Sensory Motor Constraints

Abstract: Understanding pedestrian behavior is crucial for the safe deployment of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) in urban environments. Traditional pedestrian behavior models often fall into two categories ...
IEEE

Behavior Modeling and Bio-Hybrid Systems: Using Reinforcement Learning to Enhance Cyborg Cockroach in Bio-Inspired Swarm Robotics

Abstract: Bio-inspired swarm robotics is an emerging field at the intersection of biology, robotics, and artificial intelligence, offering novel capabilities by integrating living organisms with ...