-- In this paper, m ilitary use cases or applications and implementation thereof are considered for natural language processing and large language models, which have broken into fame with the invention of the generative pre - trained transformer (GPT) and the extensive foundation model pretraining done by OpenAI for ChatGPT and others . First, we interrogate a GPT - based language model (viz. Microsoft Copilot) to make it reveal its own knowledge about their potential military application s and then critically assess the information . Second, we study how commercial cloud services (viz. Microsoft Azure) could be used readily to build such applications and assess which of the m are feasible. We conclude that t he summarization and generative properties of language models directly facilitate many applications at large and other features may find particular uses . This paper was originally presented at the NATO Science and Technology Organization Symposium (ICMCIS) organized by ...

Music Emotion Recognition (MER) is a task deeply connected to human perception, relying heavily on subjective annotations collected from contributors. Prior studies tend to focus on specific musical styles rather than incorporating a diverse range of genres, such as rock and classical, within a single framework. In this paper, we address the task of recognizing emotion from audio content by investigating five datasets with dimensional emotion annotations -- EmoMusic, DEAM, PMEmo, WTC, and WCMED -- which span various musical styles. We demonstrate the problem of out-of-distribution generalization in a systematic experiment. By closely looking at multiple data and feature sets, we provide insight into genre-emotion relationships in existing data and examine potential genre dominance and dataset biases in certain feature representations. Based on these experiments, we arrive at a simple yet effective framework that combines embeddings extracted from the Jukebox model with chroma features and demonstrate how, alongside a combination of several diverse training sets, this permits us to train models with substantially improved cross-dataset generalization capabilities.

To build AI that children can intuitively understand and benefit from, designers need a design grammar that serves their developmental needs. This paper bridges artificial intelligence design for children - an emerging field still defining its best practices - and animation, a well established field with decades of experience in engaging children through accessible storytelling. Pairing Piagetian developmental theory with design pattern extraction from 52 works of animation, the paper presents a six scaffold framework that integrates design insights transferable to child centred AI design: (1) signals for visual animacy and clarity, (2) sound for musical and auditory scaffolding, (3) synchrony in audiovisual cues, (4) sidekick style personas, (5) storyplay that supports symbolic play and imaginative exploration, and (6) structure in the form of predictable narratives. These strategies, long refined in animation, function as multimodal scaffolds for attention, understanding, and attunement, supporting learning and comfort. This structured design grammar is transferable to AI design. By reframing cinematic storytelling and child development theory as design logic for AI, the paper offers heuristics for AI that aligns with the cognitive stages and emotional needs of young users. The work contributes to design theory by showing how sensory, affective, and narrative techniques can inform developmentally attuned AI design. Future directions include empirical testing, cultural adaptation, and participatory co design.

Environment Animals Wildlife Whales Hawaii's short-finned pilot whales eat over 77,000 squid a year Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The black marine mammals with bulbous heads primarily feed on the cephalopods and some small amounts of fish. But just how much squid do they eat? New estimates suggest that individual Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales eat between 82 and 202 squid per day. The findings are detailed in a study published today in the and could help local conservation efforts.

Walk My Walk, Livin' on Borrowed Time and We Say No, No, No to an Asylum Center topped Spotify's charts this week. Walk My Walk, Livin' on Borrowed Time and We Say No, No, No to an Asylum Center topped Spotify's charts this week. Three songs generated by artificial intelligence topped music charts this week, reaching the highest spots on Spotify and Billboard charts. Walk My Walk and Livin' on Borrowed Time by the outfit Breaking Rust topped Spotify's "Viral 50" songs in the US, which documents the "most viral tracks right now" on a daily basis, according to the streaming service. A Dutch song, We Say No, No, No to an Asylum Center, an anti-migrant anthem by JW "Broken Veteran" that protests against the creation of new asylum centers, took the top position in Spotify's global version of the viral chart around the same time.

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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket and United Launch Alliance's Atlas V are both scheduled to launch Thursday from Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA's Mars spacecraft and a ViaSat satellite.

Television's New Episode Is Audacious, Even for Trump and Vance are hard to unsee. The Lincoln Bedroom at the White House has been the site of great history since its construction, from hosting a long list of famous guests and dignitaries to the recent marble-and-gold renovation of its en suite bathroom that was unveiled with great pride (and shocking insensitivity) during the government shutdown. What I'm fairly certain the walls of the Lincoln Bedroom have never seen before, however, was what was shown on Wednesday night's episode of: the president of the United States making sweet, sweet love to his own vice president. Yes, after weeks of headline-grabbing episodes that have skewered President Donald Trump and his administration in delightfully juvenile ways and led to a surge in ratings, this latest installment somehow found new levels of depravity to sink to. As the song "I Want to Know What Love Is" blasts about halfway through the episode, we see Trump and J.D. Vance in bed making out.

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