Grok 4.1 Fast's compelling dev access and Agent Tools API overshadowed by Musk glazing

Elon Musk's frontier generative AI startup xAI formally opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models last night and ...
Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Professor Jie Gu Receives $3.8 Million DARPA ScAN Program Award

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded Professor Jie Gu and co-PIs from the University of Minnesota and Duke ...

Grok 4.1 AI Model Tends to Show Sycophancy and Deception More Than Its Predecessor

Grok 4.1’s model card states that it scored higher on the dishonesty and sycophancy parameters compared to Grok 4.
Scientific AmericanOpinion

Each Time AI Gets Smarter, We Change the Definition of Intelligence

Cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter has argued that we redraw the borders of “real intelligence” whenever machines reach ...

DeepMind’s latest: An AI for handling mathematical proofs

But now Google’s DeepMind team has built AlphaProof, an AI system that matched silver medalists’ performance at the 2024 ...
IEEE

Patch based Unsupervised Deep Learning for Retrieval and Part Matching in Large Image Datasets

Abstract: In this paper, we address the dual problems of retrieval and part (Region Of Interest (ROI)) matching, especially in large-scale image datasets. At the heart of our solution lies a ...