Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

Some memory work seems more difficult than others. We have already covered learning math. Here we will consider such tasks as expanding vocabulary, learning a foreign language, and remembering dates ...

Last September roboticist Benjie Holson posted the “Humanoid Olympic Games”: a set of increasingly difficult tests for humanoid robots that he demonstrated himself while dressed in a silver bodysuit.

Zapier reports just-in-time learning involves acquiring specific knowledge exactly when needed, enhancing efficiency and ...

Researchers at Tohoku University and Future University Hakodate have trained cultured rat cortical neurons to perform real-time machine learning tasks, producing complex temporal patterns including ...

Two popular approaches for customizing large language models (LLMs) for downstream tasks are fine-tuning and in-context learning (ICL). In a recent study, researchers at Google DeepMind and Stanford ...

Research suggests that some review sessions need to be widely spaced by two months or more from the initial learning. The amount and spacing of foreign language vocabulary learning have an enormous ...