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Security
Stealing AI models: New technique enables theft without hacking into a device
Researchers have demonstrated the ability to steal an artificial intelligence (AI) model without hacking into the device where the model was running. The technique is novel in that it works even when the thief has no prior ...
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Computer Sciences
AI mirrors human biases: Study reveals 'us vs. them' tendencies in large language models
Research has long shown that humans are susceptible to "social identity bias"—favoring their group, whether that be a political party, a religion, or an ethnicity, and disparaging "outgroups." A new study by a team of scientists ...
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Co-packaged optics enhance AI computing with high-speed connectivity
Optical fibers carry voice and data at high speeds across long distances, and IBM Research scientists are bringing this speed and capacity somewhere they haven't previously gone: inside data centers and onto circuit boards, ...
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AI's human-like traits: Are we blurring the line between man and machine?
Attributing human traits to machines is nothing new, but with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, anthropomorphism is taking on a new dimension. This trend raises crucial philosophical and ethical issues, while ...
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Language database improves automatic speech recognition of Austrian German
Second-language speakers who come to Austria with a good knowledge of German usually find it difficult to understand the local dialects. Similarly, speech recognition systems often fail to decode regionally accented word ...
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Engineering
Global building height prediction made easy with machine learning
As cities continue to grow globally, characterizing the built environment is essential to understanding human populations, projecting energy usage, monitoring urban heat island impacts, preventing environmental degradation, ...
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Machine learning & AI
AI bias detection tool promises to tackle discrimination in models
Generative AI models like ChatGPT are trained using vast amounts of data obtained from websites, forums, social media and other online sources; as a result, their responses can contain harmful or discriminatory biases.
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Automotive
New method enhances scene reconstruction to test autonomous driving models
Developing vehicles that can operate safely without a human driver has been a key goal of many teams in the AI research community. As only testing autonomous vehicles on real streets would be both unsafe and unfeasible, their ...
Business
Apple adds ChatGPT integration in latest software update
Tech giant Apple on Wednesday rolled out major updates to its artificial intelligence offerings that integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT into its native applications, including Siri, on the iPhone.
Dec 11, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Google unveils latest AI model, Gemini 2.0
Google on Wednesday announced the launch of Gemini 2.0, its most advanced artificial intelligence model to date, as the world's tech giants race to take the lead in the fast developing technology.
Dec 11, 2024
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Business
Local governments are using AI without clear rules or policies, and the public has no idea
In 2017, the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands deployed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to determine how likely welfare recipients were to commit fraud. After analyzing the data, the system developed biases: it ...
Dec 11, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Quantum computing's next step: New algorithm boosts multitasking
Quantum computers differ fundamentally from classical ones. Instead of using bits (0s and 1s), they employ "qubits," which can exist in multiple states simultaneously due to quantum phenomena like superposition and entanglement.
Dec 10, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Some language reward models exhibit political bias even when trained on factual data
Large language models (LLMs) that drive generative artificial intelligence apps, such as ChatGPT, have been proliferating at lightning speed and have improved to the point that it is often impossible to distinguish between ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
AI model allows for near-instant image creation on consumer-grade hardware
An AI model that creates images as the user types, using only modest and affordable hardware, has been announced by the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence (PAI) at the University of Surrey.
Dec 10, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Enabling AI to explain its predictions in plain language
Machine-learning models can make mistakes and be difficult to use, so scientists have developed explanation methods to help users understand when and how they should trust a model's predictions.
Dec 10, 2024
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Automotive
Self-driving cars: New AI model promises safer journeys
Self-driving cars rely on artificial intelligence to predict where nearby cars will go. But when those predictions don't match reality, that discrepancy can potentially lead to crashes and less safe roadways.
Dec 10, 2024
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Automotive
Multi-label classification in AI: A new path for object recognition
Image classification is one of AI's most common tasks, where a system is required to recognize an object from a given image. Yet real life requires us to recognize not a single standalone object but rather multiple objects ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Large language models: How the AI behind the likes of ChatGPT actually works
The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new technological era. And they may indeed have significant impacts on how we live and work ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Business
How AI is reshaping open innovation
A recent study published in the California Management Review by innovation scholars, including Linus Dahlander, professor of strategy and Lufthansa Group Chair in Innovation at ESMT Berlin, presents a comprehensive framework ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Robotics
Humans have intuition, a characteristic that AI and robots are far from having, researcher says
On September 11, 2001, during the terrorist attacks in New York, the commander of one of the firefighting teams had an idea that he had to get his team out of the skyscraper they were in. He could not explain why he suddenly ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Business
When AI goes shopping: AI agents promise to lighten your purchasing load if they can earn your trust
Online shopping often involves endless options and fleeting discounts. A single search for running shoes can yield hundreds of results across multiple platforms, each promising the "best deal." The holiday season brings excitement, ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Researchers create network to predict wave scattering paths
To efficiently compute where waves of light, sound, or earthquakes will go when scattered by irregular obstacles is useful in various fields but difficult and expensive to do, even using recent machine learning techniques. ...
Dec 10, 2024
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Robotics
Zero-shot approach allows robots to manipulate articulated objects
To help humans to complete everyday manual tasks, robots should be able to reliably manipulate everyday objects that vary in shape, texture and size. Many conventional approaches to enable robotic manipulation of various ...
Robotics
A cyborg cockroach factory: Automated assembly speeds up the creation of hybrid robots
A team of mechanical engineers at Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore, has developed a way to automate the process of merging live cockroaches and electronics to create cyborg cockroaches, greatly speeding up the ...
