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Humor At Work Comes With Both Risks, Rewards

Cracking jokes in the office might seem like a shortcut to likability or leadership. But new research shows that humor at work is a gamble, and the costs of a flop are often greater than the rewards …

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AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art …

A hybrid AI approach known as hybrid autoregressive transformer can generate realistic images with the same or better quality than state-of-the-art diffusion models, but that runs about nine times faster and uses fewer computational resources. The new tool uses an autoregressive model to quickly capture the big picture and then a small diffusion model to refine the details of the image.

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AI pareidolia: Can machines spot faces in inanimate objects?

MIT CSAIL researchers have introduced a human-labeled dataset of pareidolic faces found in everyday objects, revealing key differences between human and AI face detection and discovering a mathematical “Goldilocks zone” where pareidolia is most likely to occur.

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