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Robotics
An evolving robotics encyclopedia characterizes robots based on their performance
Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of systems with distinct body structures and varying capabilities. As the number of developed robots continuously grows, being able to easily learn about these ...
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Video: With AI and linguistics, this professor is decoding how animals and humans communicate
When Gašper Beguš began studying linguistics, he spent his time deciphering ancient, largely dead languages. "Nobody cared about linguistics," he says in this episode of 101 in 101, a series from UC Berkeley that challenges ...
Mar 14, 2025
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Exo 2: A new programming language for high-performance computing, with much less code
Many companies invest heavily in hiring talent to create the high-performance library code that underpins modern artificial intelligence systems. NVIDIA, for instance, developed some of the most advanced high-performance ...
Mar 13, 2025
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Most AI struggles to read clocks and calendars, study finds
Some of the world's most advanced AI systems struggle to tell the time and work out dates on calendars, a study suggests.
Mar 13, 2025
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Security
Research reveals 'major vulnerabilities' in deepfake detectors
An international team of researchers is calling for urgent improvements in deepfake detection technologies after uncovering critical flaws in widely used detection tools.
Mar 12, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
What to know about Manus, China's latest AI assistant
A powerful new AI tool Manus is making waves in China, fueling hopes that it could replicate the success of DeepSeek, which earlier this year rattled the global tech industry with its state-of-the-art chatbot.
Mar 12, 2025
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Business
Four Chinese firms looking to shake up the tech world in the wake of DeepSeek
The success of the Chinese AI firm DeepSeek shocked financial markets and major US tech firms in January 2025. But it shouldn't have come as such a surprise.
Mar 12, 2025
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Engineering
Researchers develop new feature selection method for limited-sample industrial data
A research team from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has introduced a novel feature selection method by removing noise entropy within mutual information. This ...
Mar 12, 2025
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Business
How the US threw out any concerns about AI safety within days of Donald Trump coming to office
The EU has a long-established reputation as a global standard setter, and as a reliable partner for international regulatory cooperation, especially in the digital field. But the second Trump administration is disrupting ...
Mar 12, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
AI chatbot helps victims of digital sexual violence in Latin America
Two women from Mexico and Ecuador who spent years fighting to be recognized as victims of online sexual violence have inspired an artificial intelligence chatbot that helps others facing abuse.
Mar 12, 2025
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Engineering
Generative AI drones can guard aging tunnels, enhancing safety and efficiency
Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology has developed "Generative AI-Based Inspection Technology" to safely construct and maintain urban underground highways.
Mar 11, 2025
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Engineering
AI in engineering: Researchers discuss synergy between fields
A review explores the role of AI in engineering, assessing the benefits and challenges of the synergy between the two fields. A 2004 DARPA contest pitted AI vehicles against one another in a race on 150 miles of dirt roads. ...
Mar 11, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Debut of Manus AI digital assistant from China causes stir
A new Chinese artificial intelligence agent billed as able to work independently from humans has sent insiders buzzing—some with concern and others with disappointment.
Mar 11, 2025
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Business
Protecting artists' rights: What responsible AI means for the creative industries
The global sprint to develop artificial intelligence technologies is intensifying, fueled by substantial investments from both public and private sectors keen to maintain a competitive edge in the AI era.
Mar 11, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
New technique overcomes spurious correlations problem in AI
AI models often rely on "spurious correlations," making decisions based on unimportant and potentially misleading information. Researchers have now discovered these learned spurious correlations can be traced to a very small ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Machine learning precisely predicts material characteristics for high-performance photovoltaics
In the lab, perovskite solar cells show high efficiency in converting solar energy into electricity. In combination with silicon solar cells, they could play a role in the next generation of photovoltaic systems. Now researchers ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Engineering
Scientists develop AI-powered digital twin model that can control and adapt its physical doppelganger
Scientists say they have developed a new AI-assisted model of a digital twin with the ability to adapt and control the physical machine in real time.
Mar 10, 2025
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Internet
Can AI tell us if those Zoom calls are flowing smoothly? New study says yes
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, workers have spent countless hours in videoconferences—now a fixture of office life. As more people work and live remotely, videoconferencing platforms such as Zoom, MS Teams, FaceTime, ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
'Vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work': How AI can undermine peer review
Earlier this year I received comments on an academic manuscript of mine as part of the usual peer review process, and noticed something strange.
Mar 10, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
To understand the future of AI, take a look at the failings of Google Translate
The computer scientists Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto have been recognized for a long track record of influential ideas with this year's Turing Award, the most prestigious in the field. Sutton's 2019 essay The Bitter Lesson, ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Business
Exploring AI's potential to enhance trust in non-routine work environments
In today's economy, many workers have transitioned from manual labor toward knowledge work, a move driven primarily by technological advances, and workers in this domain face challenges around managing non-routine work, which ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
AI doesn't really 'learn'—and knowing why will help you use it more responsibly
What if we told you that artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT don't actually learn? Many people we talk to are genuinely surprised to hear this.
Mar 8, 2025
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