People hold smart AI assistants responsible for outcomes, study finds
Even when humans see AI-based assistants purely as tools, they ascribe partial responsibility for decisions to them, as a new study shows.
Aug 30, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
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Science has many big remaining questions. To address them, we will need to work collaboratively and across disciplines. The goal of iScience is to help fuel that type of interdisciplinary thinking. iScience is a new open-access journal from Cell Press that provides a platform for original research in the life, physical, and earth sciences. The primary criterion for publication in iScience is a significant contribution to a relevant field combined with robust results and underlying methodology. The advances appearing in iScience include both fundamental and applied investigations across this interdisciplinary range of topic areas. To support transparency in scientific investigation, we are happy to consider replication studies and papers that describe negative results.
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Telecom
Underground navigation may be possible with cosmic-ray muons, research shows
Superfast, subatomic-sized particles called muons have been used to wirelessly navigate underground for the first time. By using muon-detecting ground stations synchronized with an underground muon-detecting receiver, researchers ...
Jun 15, 2023
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Telecom
Using cosmic rays to generate and distribute random numbers and boost security for local devices and networks
State-of-the-art methods of information security are likely to be compromised by emerging technologies such as quantum computers. One of the reasons they are vulnerable is that both encrypted messages and the keys to decrypt ...
Jan 12, 2023
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Computer Sciences
One of the crowd or one of a kind? New artificial intelligence research indicates we're a bit of both
An Aston University computer scientist has used artificial intelligence (AI) to show that we are not as individual as we may like to think.
Oct 24, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
Study highlights how AI models take potentially dangerous 'shortcuts' in solving complex recognition tasks
Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) don't see objects the way humans do—using configural shape perception—and that could be dangerous in real-world AI applications, says Professor James Elder, co-author of a York ...
Sep 16, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Easing pain at the pump with food waste: New method for making biodiesel fuel
With gas prices soaring and food costs pinching family budgets, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at WPI is looking at ways to use food waste to make a renewable and more affordable fuel replacement for oil-based diesel. ...
Sep 2, 2022
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Business
Local renewable energy employment can fully replace US coal jobs nationwide
Across the United States, local wind and solar jobs can fully replace the coal-plant jobs that will be lost as the nation's power-generation system moves away from fossil fuels in the coming decades, according to a new University ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Robotics
Virtual co-embodiment of a joint body with left and right limbs controlled by two persons
What factors influence the embodiment felt towards parts of our bodies controlled by others? Using a new "joint avatar" whose left and right limbs are controlled by two people simultaneously, researchers have revealed that ...
Jul 26, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Preparing for New York's shift to cleaner, quieter electric cars for hire
Stepping off the curb to hail a cab. Hopping in a taxi to get home from the train station. For more than a century, these yellow sedans have been iconic symbols of New York City and a daily presence in the lives of its residents.
May 13, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Targeted demand response reduces price volatility of electric grid
Demand response, a measure taken to reduce the energy load in response to supply constraints within the Texas electric grid, has been a topic of recent conversation after the wake of Winter Storm Uri just one year ago. Demand ...
Mar 23, 2022
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