Tech layoffs signal 'feeling economy' shift
Tech company layoffs exceeded 260,000 in 2023, and continue in 2024. This, despite a robust job market in non-tech industries.
Feb 13, 2024
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Adaptive robot can open all the doors
A small team of roboticists at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a training regimen that allows a robot to start out with limited abilities, such as carrying out a certain task like opening doors or drawers, and to ...
Security
Study: Customized GPT has security vulnerability
One month after OpenAI unveiled a program that allows users to easily create their own customized ChatGPT programs, a research team at Northwestern University is warning of a "significant security vulnerability" that could ...
Robotics
How do you make a robot smarter? Program it to know what it doesn't know
Modern robots know how to sense their environment and respond to language, but what they don't know is often more important than what they do know. Teaching robots to ask for help is key to making them safer and more efficient.
Nov 29, 2023
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GPT-4 falls short of Turing threshold
One question has relentlessly followed ChatGPT in its trajectory to superstar status in the field of artificial intelligence: Has it met the Turing test of generating output indistinguishable from human response?
Business
Amazon delivery drones: How the sky could be the limit for market dominance
Amazon's latest plan to use drones to deliver packages in the UK by the end of 2024 is essentially a relaunch. It was ten years ago that the company's founder Jeff Bezos first announced it would fly individual packages through ...
Oct 25, 2023
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Was this written by AI? Researcher says you probably won't be able to tell
Even linguistics experts are largely unable to spot the difference between writing created by artificial intelligence or humans, according to a new study co-authored by a University of South Florida assistant professor.
Sep 7, 2023
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Game-playing automaton acts like an 'irrational' human
Humans make lots of irrational decisions in predictable ways, but what if we're all just doing our best within the limits of our abilities?
Jul 10, 2023
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Attackers can break voice authentication with up to 99% success within six tries: Study
Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo have discovered a method of attack that can successfully bypass voice authentication security systems with up to a 99% success rate after only six tries.
Jun 27, 2023
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DeepMind unveils self-training RoboCat
An unknown admirer of felines once remarked, "Cats and computers both have one thing in common—they both rule the Internet."
