This is the fourth Synced year-end compilation of "Artificial Intelligence Failures." Our aim is not to shame nor downplay AI research, but to look at where and how it has gone awry with the hope that ...

Synced canvases the Swiss artificial intelligence landscape: from software research in Lugano to hardware development in Zurich, with supporting vertical markets spanning the country's west side, ...

Introduction Tree boosting has empirically proven to be efficient for predictive mining for both classification and regression. For many years, MART (multiple additive regression trees) has been the ...

The quality and fluency of AI bots’ natural language generation are unquestionable, but how well can such agents mimic other human behaviours? Researchers and practitioners have long considered the ...

Recent advancements in training large multimodal models have been driven by efforts to eliminate modeling constraints and unify architectures across domains. Despite these strides, many existing ...

Just hours after making waves and triggering a backlash on social media, Genderify — an AI-powered tool designed to identify a person’s gender by analyzing their name, username or email address — has ...

Climate change and extreme weather events have made weather and climate modelling a challenging yet crucial real-world task. While current state-of-the-art approaches tend to employ numerical models ...