Machine learning & AI news
Machine learning & AI
Translating fiction: How AI could assist humans in expanding access to global literature and culture
News that Dutch publishing house Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK) has confirmed plans to experiment using AI to translate fiction has stirred up a thought-provoking debate. Some believe it marks the beginning of the end for human ...
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Prime Video's use of AI, Next Gen Stats on NFL games is helping viewers understand the game better
The Los Angeles Rams defense appeared to be content to drop back in coverage and prevent San Francisco's Brock Purdy from completing a Hail Mary on the final play of their Thursday night game on Dec. 12.
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A Minecraft-based benchmark to train and test multi-modal multi-agent systems
Researchers at the University of California- Los Angeles (UCLA) have recently developed TeamCraft, a new open-world environment for the training and evaluation of algorithms for embodied artificial intelligence (AI) agents, ...
Microsoft introduces rStar-Math, an SLM for math reasoning and problem solving
A team of math and AI researchers at Microsoft Asia has designed and developed a small language model (SLM) that can be used to solve math problems. The group has posted a paper on the arXiv preprint server outlining the ...
AI-enabled technology is 98% accurate at spotting illegal contraband
Trying to spot contraband is a tricky business. Not only is identifying items like narcotics and counterfeit merchandise difficult, but the current most used technology—X-rays—only gives a 2D view, and often a muddy one ...
Jan 10, 2025
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Robotics
Teaching robots empathy to enhance human interaction
Researchers have been analyzing how humanoid robots relate to people and say teaching the machines how to understand emotion may be essential in getting the best from them.
Jan 10, 2025
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Security
Online surveys susceptible to automated bot fraud
Imagine you're filling out an online survey about the future of your city. You thoughtfully answer each question, adding your personal insights.
Jan 10, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Group activity recognition: A dataset with detailed annotation and rich semantics
Group activity recognition (GAR), which aims to identify activities performed collectively in videos, has gained significant attention recently. Existing GAR datasets typically annotate only a single Group Activity (GA) instance ...
Jan 10, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Machine learning algorithm enables faster, more accurate predictions on small tabular data sets
Filling gaps in data sets or identifying outliers—that's the domain of the machine learning algorithm TabPFN, developed by a team led by Prof. Dr. Frank Hutter from the University of Freiburg. This artificial intelligence ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Human-inspired AI model can produce and understand vocal imitations of everyday sounds
Whether you're describing the sound of your faulty car engine or meowing like your neighbor's cat, imitating sounds with your voice can be a helpful way to relay a concept when words don't do the trick.
Jan 9, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
What influences trust when conversing with chatbots?
Whether on your bank's website or your telephone provider's help line, interactions between humans and chatbots have become part of our daily lives. But do we trust them? And what factors influence our trust? Researchers ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Business
Businesses can't escape the AI revolution—so here's how to build a culture of safe and responsible use
In November 2023, the estates of two now-deceased policyholders sued the US health insurer, United Healthcare, for deploying what they allege is a flawed artificial intelligence (AI) system to systematically deny patient ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Evaluating how brains generalize: Data from macaque monkeys reveals flaws in deep neural networks
Among the marvels of the human brain is its ability to generalize. We see an object, like a chair, and we know it's a chair, even when it's a slightly different shape, or it's found in an unexpected place or in a dimly lit ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
An AI tool may help optimize methane storage solutions
A new approach harnesses machine learning to search for materials to store methane, helping accelerate the adoption of methane as a cleaner alternative fuel for vehicles. The University of Michigan-led study is published ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Hardware
Nvidia's new GPU series led an avalanche of entertainment-related announcements at CES
In a packed Las Vegas arena, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang stood on stage and marveled over the crisp real-time computer graphics displayed on the screen behind him. He watched as a dark-haired woman walked through ornate gilded ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Business
Machine learning tools enhance financial fraud detection accuracy
Research published in the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology suggests that machine learning tools might be used to detect and so combat financial fraud.
Jan 8, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Logging off life but living on: How AI is redefining death, memory and immortality
Imagine attending a funeral where the person who has died speaks directly to you, answering your questions and sharing memories. This happened at the funeral of Marina Smith, a Holocaust educator who died in 2022.
Jan 8, 2025
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Business
How bots are driving the climate crisis and how we can solve it
Welcome to the age of the blob internet, a time in which the world wide web is overrun by bots automated to spam us, imitate us and ensure that we are all stuck picking fire hydrants from six different images just to read ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
ALS sidelined this Israeli TV journalist. AI is helping him make a comeback.
When a renowned Israeli TV journalist lost his ability to speak clearly because of ALS, he thought his career might be over. But now, using artificial-intelligence software that can recreate his widely recognized gravelly ...
Jan 8, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Open-source framework goes beyond language to enhance multimodal AI training capabilities
EPFL researchers have developed 4M, a next-generation, open-sourced framework for training versatile and scalable multimodal foundation models that go beyond language.
Jan 7, 2025
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Engineering
Smart food drying techniques with AI enhance product quality and efficiency
Food drying is a common process for preserving many types of food, including fruits and meat; however, drying can alter the food's quality and nutritional value. In recent years, researchers have developed precision techniques ...
Jan 7, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
TVs get smarter as makers cater to AI lifestyles
Dazzling televisions that routinely star at the Consumer Electronics Show opening here Tuesday are getting ever smarter with an eye toward being at the heart of AI-centered lifestyles.
Jan 7, 2025
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Hardware
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang unveils next generation of AI and gaming chips at CES 2025
In a packed Las Vegas arena, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang stood on stage and marveled over the crisp real-time computer graphics displayed on the screen behind him. He watched as a dark-haired woman walked through ornate gilded ...
Jan 7, 2025
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