Machine learning & AI news
Automotive
AI camera tech promises affordable self-driving cars
AI-powered camera technology developed by Australian Catholic University will enable cars to react faster than an Olympic sprinter, see in 3D, and make autonomous driving safer and more affordable.
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Machine learning & AI
Technology has shaped human knowledge for centuries. Generative AI is set to transform it yet again
Where would we be without knowledge? Everything from the building of spaceships to the development of new therapies has come about through the creation, sharing, and validation of knowledge. It is arguably our most valuable ...
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Spain seeks to criminalize AI-generated sexual images
Spain's leftist government unveiled a draft bill Tuesday that would criminalize the use of artificial intelligence to generate sexually explicit video images of a person's face or body without their consent.
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Neural networks can recognize production processes by video to enhance industrial safety and efficiency
A research team from the Skoltech AI Center and Samara University have developed a system for automatically separating the stages of production processes from video streams. Industrial cameras will detect deviations in the ...
Mar 24, 2025
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Smart cities on the move—how AI is helping improve urban flow
EU researchers are using AI to help ease the flow in Europe's cities, making urban environments both safer and greener.
Mar 24, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Can energy-hungry AI help cut our energy use?
It takes 10 times more electricity for ChatGPT to respond to a prompt than for Google to carry out a standard search. Still, researchers are struggling to get a grasp on the energy implications of generative artificial intelligence ...
Mar 24, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
What are AI hallucinations? Why AIs sometimes make things up
When someone sees something that isn't there, people often refer to the experience as a hallucination. Hallucinations occur when your sensory perception does not correspond to external stimuli.
Mar 24, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Helper bots in online communities diminish human interaction
When bots—automated agents that perform tasks on behalf of humans—become more active in online communities, it has profound effects on how humans interact with each other on those platforms. Bots designed to help users ...
Mar 24, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Researchers develop AI app to help speech-impaired users communicate more naturally
More than 250 million people worldwide have verbal communication disorders that make it difficult to use automatic speech recognition programs. Simply sharing what they'd like to eat for dinner by using ASR is cumbersome.
Mar 24, 2025
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Internet
Does 'vibe coding' make everyone a programmer?
Can a complete tech novice create a website using everyday language on ChatGPT?
Mar 24, 2025
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Business
AI could take your next drive-through order: Taco Bell parent Yum Brands and Nvidia's partnership explained
Fast food customers might find themselves talking to an artificial intelligence voice the next time they order tacos or pizza at a drive-through.
Mar 24, 2025
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Hi Tech & Innovation
DNA data storage: AI method speeds up data retrieval by 3,200 times
Researchers from the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science have developed an AI-based method that accelerates DNA-based data retrieval by three orders of magnitude while significantly improving accuracy. The ...
Mar 21, 2025
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Engineering
New machine learning framework enhances precision, efficiency in metal 3D printing
Researchers at University of Toronto Engineering, led by Professor Yu Zou, are leveraging machine learning to improve additive manufacturing, also commonly known as 3D printing.
Mar 21, 2025
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Engineering
To prevent bridge collapses, researchers use AI-based digital twin technology
This month marks the seventh anniversary of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse in 2018, when a fatal design flaw resulted in the deaths of six people.
Mar 21, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Italian paper prints fully-AI edition, but not to 'kill' journalism
In a world first, an Italian newspaper is printing a fully AI-generated edition for a month in what its director said Thursday was an experiment to "revitalize journalism, not to kill it."
Mar 21, 2025
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Business
Trump's call for AI deregulation gets strong backing from Big Tech
Major tech firms are pushing the administration of President Donald Trump to loosen rules on building artificial intelligence, arguing it is the only way to maintain a US edge and compete with China.
Mar 21, 2025
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Robotics
Legged robots skateboard successfully with reinforcement learning framework
Legged robots, which are often inspired by animals and insects, could help humans to complete various real-world tasks, for instance delivering parcels or monitoring specific environments. In recent years, computer scientists ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Novel memristors to overcome AI's 'catastrophic forgetting'
So-called "memristors" consume extremely little power and behave similarly to brain cells. Researchers from Jülich, led by Ilia Valov, have now introduced novel memristive components that offer significant advantages over ...
Mar 20, 2025
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Computer Sciences
New AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches
The ability to generate high-quality images quickly is crucial for producing realistic simulated environments that can be used to train self-driving cars to avoid unpredictable hazards, making them safer on real streets.
Mar 20, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
A new metric to quantify capabilities of AI systems in terms of human capabilities
A team of AI researchers at startup METR is proposing a new metric to quantify the capabilities of AI systems in terms of human capabilities. They have published a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing the new metric, ...
Machine learning & AI
This AI model is more certain about uncertainty
Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a role in virtually every aspect of our lives, from self-driving cars to smart vacuum cleaners, to computer models that can predict the course of an epidemic. No matter how advanced these ...
Mar 20, 2025
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Security
Researcher develops a security-focused large language model to defend against malware
Security was top of mind when Dr. Marcus Botacin, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, heard about large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. LLMs are a type of AI that can quickly craft ...
Mar 20, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
If we fully engage with how generative AI works, we can still create original art
Even before the recent protest by a group of well-known musicians at the UK government's plans to allow AI companies to use copyright-protected work for training, disquiet around artists' rights was already growing.
Mar 20, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
AI can be a powerful tool for scientists, but it can also fuel research misconduct
In February 2025, Google announced it was launching "a new AI system for scientists." It said this system was a collaborative tool designed to help scientists "in creating novel hypotheses and research plans."
Mar 20, 2025
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