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Machine learning & AI

Study finds skepticism towards AI in moral decision roles

Psychologists warn that AI's perceived lack of human experience and genuine understanding may limit its acceptance to make higher-stakes moral decisions.

Machine learning & AI

DeepMind AI achieves gold-medal level performance on challenging Olympiad math questions

A team of researchers at Google's DeepMind project, reports that its AlphaGeometry2 AI performed at a gold-medal level when tasked with solving problems that were given to high school students participating in the International ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Machine learning method improves semiconductor band gap predictions

Imagine you're cooking. You're trying to develop a unique flavor by mixing spices you've never combined before. Predicting how this will turn out could be tricky. You want to create something delicious, but it could end up ...

Business

What is Jevons' Paradox? And why it may—or may not—predict AI's future

In 1865, William Stanley Jevons first described a paradox. He maintained that more efficient steam engines would not decrease the use of coal in British factories but would actually increase it. As the fossil fuel became ...

Machine learning & AI

Here's how researchers are helping AIs get their facts straight

AI has made it easier than ever to find information: Ask ChatGPT almost anything, and the system swiftly delivers an answer. But the large language models that power popular tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Anthropic's Claude ...

Machine learning & AI

Labor impact and trade windfall on agenda at Paris AI summit

Artificial intelligence (AI) presents vast opportunities if correctly chanelled but is already sharpening gender pay disparities, global leaders told a Paris summit aimed at finding common ground on the technology on Monday.

Machine learning & AI

Government chiefs and tech leaders gather in Paris for AI summit

Political and tech industry leaders were set to descend on Paris Monday for a two-day summit on artificial intelligence, hoping to find common ground on a technology with the potential to upset global business and society.

Machine learning & AI

How AI can help in the creative design process

Generative artificial intelligence tools can help design students by making hard tasks easier, cutting down on stress, and allowing the students more time to explore innovative ideas, according to new research I published ...

Hi Tech & Innovation

AI model masters new terrain at NASA facility one scoop at a time

Extraterrestrial landers sent to gather samples from the surface of distant moons and planets have limited time and battery power to complete their mission. Aerospace and computer science engineering researchers at The Grainger ...

Machine learning & AI

OpenAI's Altman warns EU regulation may hold Europe back

OpenAI chief Sam Altman on Friday suggested European regulation could hold back the development of artificial intelligence (AI), while promising the US company would abide by new EU legislation.

Computer Sciences

Machine learning approach enhances emotion detection accuracy

Facial emotion recognition could have broad applications across health care, education, marketing, transportation, and entertainment. It might be used to help monitor patients remotely or in overstretched hospitals or emergency ...

Machine learning & AI

International report warns against loss of control over AI

A frantic race by tech giants to develop ever more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) could have "harmful" effects, leading researcher Yoshua Bengio warned Thursday as scientists marked the start of the Paris global summit ...

Machine learning & AI

AI datasets have human values blind spots: New research

My colleagues and I at Purdue University have uncovered a significant imbalance in the human values embedded in AI systems. The systems were predominantly oriented toward information and utility values and less toward prosocial, ...