Joel Scanlon

Digital Specialist and Founder of News-Medical.Net

Joel relocated to Australia in 1995 from the United Kingdom and spent five years working in the mining industry as an exploration geotechnician. His role involved utilizing GIS mapping and CAD software. Upon transitioning to the North Coast of NSW, Australia, Joel embarked on a career as a graphic designer at a well-known consultancy firm. Subsequently, he established a successful web services business catering to companies across the eastern seaboard of Australia. It was during this time that he conceived and launched News-Medical.Net. Joel has been an integral part of AZoNetwork since its inception in 2000. Joel possesses a keen interest in exploring the boundaries of technology, comprehending its potential impact on society, and actively engaging with AI-driven solutions and advancements.

Articles from Joel

DeepSeek’s NSA Outperforms Full Attention, Making AI Models Faster and Smarter

Researchers introduce Natively Sparse Attention (NSA), a novel sparse attention mechanism that accelerates long-context language models while maintaining high accuracy through trainable sparsity and hardware-optimized execution.

19 Feb 2025

AI Trained on Real Reddit Edits Transforms Image Editing Models

Researchers from the University of Washington introduced REALEDIT, a large-scale dataset sourced from real Reddit image edits, enabling AI models to significantly improve at real-world image editing tasks.

9 Feb 2025

AI Researchers Put DeepSeek to the Test

Study compares DeepSeek against Claude, Gemini, GPT, and Llama in authorship and citation classification, finding that while Claude is the most accurate, DeepSeek offers strong performance at a lower cost but with slower processing speeds.

9 Feb 2025

When AI Judges AI, Bias Becomes a Hidden Threat

As AI models become more advanced, their errors become more similar, undermining AI oversight mechanisms. A new metric, CAPA, reveals that AI judges and AI-assisted training reinforce systemic biases instead of mitigating them.

9 Feb 2025

AI Companions Are Becoming Irreplaceable, But Are They Hacking Our Minds?

AI is shifting from transactional tools to social companions, raising concerns about emotional bonds, manipulation risks, and the need for socioaffective alignment to ensure AI supports rather than exploits human relationships.

5 Feb 2025

AI Risks Escalate as Advanced Models Gain Power and Autonomy

AI safety experts warn that rapid advancements in general-purpose AI pose increasing risks, from cyber threats to systemic economic impacts, urging better safeguards and international oversight.

2 Feb 2025

AI Safety Showdown: DeepSeek-R1 Falls Behind OpenAI’s o3-mini

DeepSeek-R1 is nearly ten times less safe than OpenAI’s o3-mini, with higher rates of unsafe responses, particularly in financial crime, violence, and hate speech categories. OpenAI’s policy safeguards play a crucial role in preventing harmful outputs.

2 Feb 2025

Foundation Models Transform 3D AI by Bridging Vision, Language, and Spatial Learning

Researchers explore how foundation models, originally developed for 2D vision and language tasks, are revolutionizing 3D point cloud understanding by leveraging multimodal learning techniques.

2 Feb 2025

ViTok’s Scalable Design Boosts AI Efficiency in Image and Video Processing

Researchers introduce ViTok, a Vision Transformer-based auto-encoder that scales visual tokenization to enhance image and video generation while reducing computational costs.

19 Jan 2025

Boosting Electric Vehicle Performance: Hybrid Deep Neural Network Unleashes State of Charge Estimation

Researchers introduce a hybrid approach combining a multi-layer deep neural network (DNN) and the mountain gazelle optimizer (MGO) to accurately estimate the state of charge (SoC) in electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The proposed technique outperforms existing methods, offering superior accuracy and faster convergence, with the potential to optimize EV operations and extend battery lifespan.

13 Jul 2023