Machine learning & AI news
Computer Sciences
Tech giants warn window to monitor AI reasoning is closing, urge action
Artificial intelligence is advancing at a dizzying speed. Like many new technologies, it offers significant benefits but also poses safety risks. Recognizing the potential dangers, leading researchers from Google DeepMind, ...
Jul 17, 2025
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Software
Can AI really code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering
Imagine a future where artificial intelligence quietly shoulders the drudgery of software development: refactoring tangled code, migrating legacy systems, and hunting down race conditions, so that human engineers can devote ...
Jul 17, 2025
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When the stakes are high, do machine learning models make fair decisions?
Machine learning is an integral part of high-stakes decision-making in a broad swath of human-computer interactions. You apply for a job. You submit a loan application. Algorithms determine who advances and who is declined.
Jul 17, 2025
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Anyone can now train a robot: New tool makes teaching skills hands-on and easy
Teaching a robot new skills used to require coding expertise. But a new generation of robots could potentially learn from just about anyone.
Jul 17, 2025
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AI 'coach' helps language models choose between text and code to solve problems
Large language models (LLMs) excel at using textual reasoning to understand the context of a document and provide a logical answer about its contents. But these same LLMs often struggle to correctly answer even the simplest ...
Jul 17, 2025
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Business
AI could make these common jobs more productive without sacrificing quality
A study of Chile's workforce finds that AI could "accelerate" nearly half of the tasks performed by the country's 100 most common jobs.
Jul 17, 2025
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Business
Generative AI models streamline fashion design with new text and image creation
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize fashion design. By recognizing patterns in data and generating new text and images, AI models powered by deep learning algorithms can help fashion ...
Jul 17, 2025
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Automotive
Through smartphone apps, AI can close road assessment gap
Dodging potholes is a familiar routine for drivers. But, behind every bump and crack in the pavement is a bigger issue: many communities lack the tools and data they need to maintain their roads effectively. Traditional pavement ...
Jul 17, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Does AI understand?
Imagine an ant crawling in sand, tracing a path that happens to look like Winston Churchill. Would you say the ant created an image of the former British prime minister? According to the late Harvard philosopher Hilary Putnam, ...
Jul 17, 2025
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Business
California tech hubs are set to dominate the AI economy, report suggests
Despite suggestions it has been losing its edge, California is way ahead of others when it comes to the hottest technology right now: artificial intelligence.
Jul 17, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
New research reveals AI has a confidence problem
Large language models (LLMs) sometimes lose confidence when answering questions and abandon correct answers, according to a new study by researchers at Google DeepMind and University College London.
Robotics
Robots now grow and repair themselves by consuming parts from other machines
Today's robots are stuck—their bodies are usually closed systems that can neither grow nor self-repair, nor adapt to their environment. Now, scientists at Columbia University have developed robots that can physically "grow," ...
Jul 16, 2025
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Robotics
Robot hand 'feels' pain and ignores harmless touch with new sensory system
In the midst of the co-development of artificial intelligence and robotic advancements, developing technologies that enable robots to efficiently perceive and respond to their surroundings like humans has become a crucial ...
Jul 16, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Faster, smarter, more open: Study shows new algorithms accelerate AI models
Just as people from different countries speak different languages, AI models also create various internal "languages"—a unique set of tokens understood only by each model. Until recently, there was no way for models developed ...
Jul 16, 2025
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Consumer & Gadgets
Law enforcement is learning how to use AI more ethically
As more and more sectors experiment with artificial intelligence, one of the areas that has most quickly adopted this new technology is law enforcement. It's led to some problematic growing pains, from false arrests to concerns ...
Jul 16, 2025
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Computer Sciences
AI that thinks like us? Researchers unveil new model to predict human behavior
Imagine a self-driving car navigating downtown traffic. To avoid a collision, it must judge whether the pedestrian at the corner is about to cross. Or consider an investment algorithm trading stocks—it needs to anticipate ...
Jul 15, 2025
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Robotics
First publicly available Japanese AI dialogue system can speak and listen simultaneously
How do you develop an AI system that perfectly mimics the way humans speak? Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have taken a significant step forward to achieve this. They have created J-Moshi, the first publicly available ...
Jul 15, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
New method makes AI language model evaluations faster, fairer, and less costly
Assessing the progress of new AI language models can be as challenging as training them. Stanford researchers offer a new approach.
Jul 15, 2025
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Business
Survey reveals gap between worker desires and AI's current workplace abilities
A Stanford study captures the gap between worker desires and AI's abilities and highlights areas ripe for research and development.
Jul 15, 2025
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Business
Pentagon inks contracts for Musk's xAI, competitors
The Pentagon announced contracts on Monday with multiple leading US artificial intelligence firms including Elon Musk's xAI, which has faced intense scrutiny in recent days over anti-Semitic posts by its Grok chatbot.
Jul 15, 2025
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Energy & Green Tech
Trump unveils investments to power AI boom
US President Donald Trump went to Pennsylvania on Tuesday to announce $92 billion in energy and infrastructure deals intended to meet big tech's soaring demand for electricity to fuel the AI boom.
Jul 15, 2025
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Computer Sciences
NVIDIA's new AI tool enables precise editing of 3D scenes and photorealistic images
Over the past years, computer scientists have introduced increasingly sophisticated generative AI models that can produce personalized content following specific inputs or instructions. While image generation models are now ...
Computer Sciences
What a folding ruler can tell us about neural networks
Deep neural networks are at the heart of artificial intelligence, ranging from pattern recognition to large language and reasoning models like ChatGPT. The principle: during a training phase, the parameters of the network's ...
Jul 14, 2025
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Robotics
New simulation system generates thousands of training examples for robotic hands and arms
When ChatGPT or Gemini give what seems to be an expert response to your burning questions, you may not realize how much information it relies on to give that reply. Like other popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Jul 14, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Amazon's AI assistant struggles with diverse dialects, study finds
A new Cornell study has revealed that Amazon's AI shopping assistant, Rufus, gives vague or incorrect responses to users writing in some English dialects, such as African American English (AAE), especially when prompts contain ...
Jul 14, 2025
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