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First came ‘spam’. Now, with AI, we’ve got ‘slop’.

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By Benjamin Hoffman
| The Star (Malaysia) Verified
You may not know exactly what “slop” means in relation to artificial intelligence. But on some level you probably do. Slop, at least in the fast-moving world of online message boards, is a broad term that has developed some traction in reference to shoddy or unwanted AI content in social media, art, books and, increasingly, in search results. Google suggesting that you could add nontoxic glue to make cheese stick to a pizza? That’s slop.
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The cellular basis of mechanosensation in mammalian tongue

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By Yalda Moayedi, Shan Xu, Sophie K. Obayashi, Benjamin Hoffman
| Cell Reports Verified
Highlights • Five functional subclasses of trigeminal mechanoreceptors innervate the mouse tongue • Most tongue mechanosensory neurons are tuned to detect movement • A small population of tongue-innervating mechanoreceptors encodes force magnitude • Hierarchical clustering is a robust way to classify neurons based on calcium imaging Summary Mechanosensory neurons that innervate the tongue provide essential information to guide feeding, speech, and social grooming.
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Behind the Scenes of Sound ID in Merlin

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By Benjamin Hoffman, Grant Van Horn
| macaulaylibrary.org
What is Sound ID? Today we announced one of our biggest breakthroughs—Sound ID, a new feature in the Merlin Bird ID app—and a major leap forward in sound identification and machine learning to date. Sound ID lets people use their phone to listen to the birds around them, and see live predictions of who’s singing. Currently, Merlin can identify 458 bird species in the U.S. and Canada based on their sounds (with more species and regions coming soon).
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