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CMU research shows compression alone may unlock AI puzzle-solving abilities

This new research matters because it challenges the prevailing wisdom in AI development, which typically relies on massive pre-training datasets and computationally expensive models. While leading AI companies push toward ever-larger models trained on more extensive datasets, CompressARC suggests intelligence emerging from a fundamentally different principle. “CompressARC’s intelligence emerges not from pretraining, vast datasets, exhaustive… Read More »

AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study

reader comments 53 with Effective compression is about finding patterns to make data smaller without losing information. When an algorithm or model can accurately guess the next piece of data in a sequence, it shows it’s good at spotting these patterns. This links the idea of making good guesses—which is what large language models like… Read More »

FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony

Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 80% of browser share, says that something has “not enough interest from the entire ecosystem,” what does that mean, exactly? Aurich Lawson reader comments 70 with Share this story Chrome developers’ decision to remove support for a compressed image format that Google helped develop is just… Read More »

New Mac app wants to record everything you do—so you can “rewind” it later

Enlarge / Rewind reportedly lets you search your Mac’s usage history for what you’ve seen, said, or heard. reader comments 74 with 66 posters participating Share this story Yesterday, a company called Rewind AI announced a self-titled software product for Macs with Apple Silicon that reportedly keeps a highly compressed, searchable record of everything you… Read More »

Meta’s AI-powered audio codec promises 10x compression over MP3

Enlarge / An illustrated depiction of data in an audio wave. reader comments 60 with 54 posters participating Share this story Last week, Meta announced an AI-powered audio compression method called “EnCodec” that can reportedly compress audio 10 times smaller than the MP3 format at 64kbps with no loss in quality. Meta says this technique… Read More »