Revealed: The 'universal language' that could let us speak to aliens

A group of Australian scientists have revealed how we may be able to learn to speak with aliens, and the answer is found ...

Erich von Daeniken, Swiss author who popularised ancient‑alien theories, dies at 90

Erich von Daeniken, renowned for popularizing ancient-alien theories, has passed away at 90, leaving a controversial legacy.
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Free Draft-and-Verification: Toward Lossless Parallel Decoding for Diffusion Large Language Models

We propose FreeDave (Free Draft-and-Verification), a fast sampling algorithm for diffusion language models, which achieves lossless parallel decoding via a pipeline of parallel-decoded candidate ...
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Adrian Villar Rojas's 'The Language of the Enemy' challenges human-centered perception in AI era

The Political Nature of Perception Proposed by Spatial Installation Art in the AI Era — Adrian Villar Rojas, Focusing on the Exhibition "The Language of the Enemy" 1. Art Questioning the Conditions of ...
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Decoding the lost scripts of the ancient world

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...
IEEE

Focusing on what to Decode and what to Train: SOV Decoding with Specific Target Guided DeNoising and Vision Language Advisor

Abstract: Recent transformer-based methods achieve notable gains in the Human-object Interaction Detection (HOID) task by leveraging the detection of DETR and the prior knowledge of Vision-Language ...
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Distilled Decoding 1: One-step Sampling of Image Auto-regressive Models with Flow Matching

This is the official repository of paper Distilled Decoding 1: One-step Sampling of Image Auto-regressive Models with Flow Matching. We propose Distilled Decoding (DD) to distill a pre-trained image ...
IEEE

Confidence-Modulated Speculative Decoding for Large Language Models

Abstract: Speculative decoding has proven to be a powerful method for speeding up autoregressive inference by allowing tokens to be generated in parallel using a draft-then-verify approach. However, ...
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Humans will contact ‘loud’ alien civilization on the brink of ‘violent’ collapse: Columbia astronomer

When ET phones home, it could be his last call. Contrary to sci-fi movie depictions, our first contact might not be with a super advanced alien civilization at the height of power. Rather, Ivy League ...
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Implantable Brain–Computer Interface Breakthrough: INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI Achieves High-Accuracy, Generalizable Decoding of Chinese Language from Neural Signals

Brain–computer interfaces are beginning to truly "understand" Chinese. The INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI, in collaboration with Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University, the National Center ...
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“Disclosure Day”: Everything We Know So Far About Steven Spielberg’s Mysterious Alien Movie

No one really knows what Disclosure Day is about — and that seems to be exactly what Steven Spielberg wants. The acclaimed director's mysterious new UFO movie was first announced in April 2024, per ...
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How far are brain-computer interfaces from restoring and extending human ability?

Li Xue (left) and Zhao Zhengtou (center), co-founders of StairMed, conduct preoperative planning with Lu Junfeng at Huashan Hospital, Fudan University. The team was preparing for a clinical trial ...