EPFL researchers developed a ground-breaking new tool to help build safer AI. Today, almost everybody has heard of AI and millions around the world already use, or are exposed, to it – from ChatGPT writing our emails, to helping in medical diagnosis.
Small language models are more reliable and secure than their large counterparts, primarily because they draw information from a circumscribed dataset. Expect to see more chatbots running on these slimmed-down alternatives in the coming months.
“Fruit flies are a major source of inspiration in robotics”
Researchers at EPFL’s Neuroengineering Laboratory, led by Pavan Ramdya, aim to replicate the workings of the brain of the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. We spoke with Ramdya about the exciting prospects for robotics.
“Technology alone won’t be able to solve major societal challenges”
Daniel Gatica-Perez, named the best teacher in the digital humanities section for 2024, believes it’s important to stress the human factor in how technology is adopted and used. His research looks at social computing and human-centered artificial intelligence (AI) – both of which are fast-moving fields.
New research sheds light on how diffusion models—used in artificial intelligence (AI) image generation—operate across hierarchical data structures, revealing unexpected transitions between high-level and low-level features during the generative process.
