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Consumer & Gadgets
AI can't do your Christmas shopping just yet—but next year might be different
I'm a computer scientist and a bad Christmas shopper. Over the weekend, I wondered whether AI systems might be able to help me out.
Dec 21, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Open-source platform provides a virtual playground for human-AI teaming
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already become an invisible but indispensable collaborator in our lives. It helps filter spam from your inbox, improves your Netflix recommendations, and, as an automotive copilot, suggests ...
Dec 20, 2024
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AI-driven gait analysis bridges health care and security fields
The analysis of a person's individual walking pattern, or gait, can reveal details about their identity and reflect differences between individuals, groups and even populations.
Dec 20, 2024
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AI system reveals hidden drug dark jargon unknown even to police officers
Drug trafficking and other criminal activities on social media have become a growing social concern. To evade detection by law enforcement and automated monitoring systems, offenders use dark jargons, often combining multiple ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Modern AI systems have achieved Turing's vision, but not exactly how he hoped
A recent perspective published Nov. 13 in Intelligent Computing, asserts that today's artificial intelligence systems have finally realized Alan Turing's vision from over 70 years ago: machines that can genuinely learn from ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Italy's privacy watchdog fines OpenAI for ChatGPT's violations in collecting users personal data
Italy's data protection watchdog said Friday it has fined OpenAI 15 million euros ($15.6 million) after wrapping up a probe into the collection of personal data by the U.S. artificial intelligence company's popular chatbot ...
Dec 20, 2024
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Computer Sciences
AI-powered algorithm enables personalized age transformation for human faces
Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland recently developed MyTimeMachine (MyTM), a new AI-powered method for personalized age transformation that can make human faces in images ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Machine learning helps researchers develop perovskite solar cells with near-record efficiency
An international team of scientists has used machine learning to help them develop perovskite solar cells with near-record efficiency. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they used the ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
AI system can envision an entire world from a single picture
Johns Hopkins computer scientists have created an artificial intelligence system capable of "imagining" its surroundings without having to physically explore them, bringing AI closer to humanlike reasoning.
Dec 19, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Laser-based artificial neuron mimics nerve cell functions at lightning speed
Researchers have developed a laser-based artificial neuron that fully emulates the functions, dynamics and information processing of a biological graded neuron. With a signal processing speed of 10 GBaud—a billion times ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Security
Can we convince AI to answer harmful requests?
New research from EPFL demonstrates that even the most recent large language models (LLMs), despite undergoing safety training, remain vulnerable to simple input manipulations that can cause them to behave in unintended or ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
AI agents mimic scientific collaboration to generate evidence-driven hypotheses
Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental skill for any scientist. It can also be time consuming: New Ph.D. candidates might spend the first year of their program trying to decide exactly what to ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Robotics
Microrobots and the 'lazy agent problem': Swarm study demonstrates a solution
Imagine trying to move a heavy piece of furniture with a group of people. Everyone's effort matters, but how do you ensure that each person is pulling their weight? This challenge of fairly distributing the load is a critical ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Security
Study: New method of privacy enhancement for AI-powered medical data
Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve doctors' ability to diagnose and treat sleep apnea. But the technology is not widely adopted due to fears that it does not safeguard patient data.
Dec 19, 2024
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Computer Sciences
AI 'Machine Psychology' could unlock human-level intelligence, says researcher
Artificial intelligence that is as intelligent as humans may become possible thanks to psychological learning models, combined with certain types of AI. This is the conclusion of Robert Johansson, who in his dissertation, ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Survey highlights public concerns over AI's political and media impact
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent, a new Rutgers University-New Brunswick survey sheds light on public attitudes, revealing widespread concerns about its impact on politics and the media, alongside an ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Business
AI will continue to grow in 2025, but it may face major challenges along the way
In 2024, artificial intelligence (AI) continued taking large and surprising steps forward.
Dec 19, 2024
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Robotics
Data on animal movements help Hungarian researchers create a swarm of autonomous drones
Moving in a dense cloud, like throngs of people walking across a crowded public square, 100 drones maneuver through the night sky in Hungary's capital, the result of over a decade of research and experimentation that scientists ...
Dec 19, 2024
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Business
Retailers offer last-minute shoppers a Santa's little helper: AI
Say your nephew needs a Christmas present and you vaguely know what he's into these days. A new Gift Finder feature on the Best Buy app lets users ask questions like, "What can I get for a 10-year-old who loves Minecraft?"
Dec 19, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
LLMs are becoming more brain-like as they advance, researchers discover
Large language models (LLMs), the most renowned of which is ChatGPT, have become increasingly better at processing and generating human language over the past few years. The extent to which these models emulate the neural ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Bias in AI amplifies our own biases, finds study
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people who use that AI to become more biased themselves, finds a new study by UCL researchers.
Dec 18, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Human-like artificial intelligence may face greater blame for moral violations
In a new study, participants tended to assign greater blame to artificial intelligences (AIs) involved in real-world moral transgressions when they perceived the AIs as having more human-like minds. Minjoo Joo of Sookmyung ...
Dec 18, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
AI chatbots may be repeating old biases while trying to help the planet
AI chatbots may seem like neutral tools, but a new study from UBC researchers suggests they often contain biases that could shape environmental discourse in unhelpful ways. The paper is published in the journal Environmental ...
Dec 18, 2024
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Business
ChatGPT errors show it cannot replace finance professionals just yet
While large language models like ChatGPT can do well when choosing multiple-choice answers on financial licensing exams, they falter when dealing with more nuanced tasks.
Dec 18, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Circumventing a long-time frustration in neural computing
The human brain begins learning through spontaneous random activities even before it receives sensory information from the external world. A new technology developed by the KAIST research team enables much faster and more ...
Dec 18, 2024
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