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Up to 30% of the power used to train AI is wasted. Here’s how to fix it.
  1. Up to 30% of the power used to train AI is wasted. Here’s how to fix it.

    Smarter use of processor speeds saves energy without compromising training speed and performance.

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  2. OptoGPT for improving solar cells, smart windows, telescopes and more

    Taking advantage of the transformer neural networks that power large language models, engineers can get recipes for materials with the optical properties they need.

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  3. AI chips could get a sense of time

    Timekeeping in the brain is done with neurons that relax at different rates after receiving a signal; now memristors—hardware analogues of neurons—can do that too.

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  4. Auto industry deadlines loom for impaired-driver detection tech, U-M offers a low-cost solution

    Current technologies already in use could help prevent crashes and deaths linked to impaired driving.

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  5. Improving traffic signal timing with a handful of connected vehicles

    Communities could reduce costs and cut vehicle emissions—all in the name of shortening your trip.

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  6. Widely used AI tool for early sepsis detection may be cribbing doctors’ suspicions

    When using only data collected before patients with sepsis received treatments or medical tests, the model’s accuracy was no better than a coin toss.

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  7. $20M NSF AI-EDGE Institute aims to transform 5G and beyond networks

    U-M is a core member of a new NSF-led Institute that is a collaboration between 11 institutions, three government research labs, and four global companies.

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  8. How big data could optimize COVID-19 testing

    Microsoft-supported project to coordinate site locations, supply distribution.

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  9. Hunger and COVID: Fighting pandemic-related food insecurity in Detroit

    Public policy and engineering team up to improve food access.

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  10. Catching nuclear smugglers: fast algorithm could enable cost-effective detectors at borders

    The algorithm can pick out weak signals from nuclear weapons materials, hidden in ordinary radiation sources like fertilizer.

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