Machine learning & AI news
Software
Diagram-based language streamlines optimization of complex coordinated systems
Coordinating complicated interactive systems, whether it's the different modes of transportation in a city or the various components that must work together to make an effective and efficient robot, is an increasingly important ...
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Computer Sciences
A new way to measure uncertainty provides an important step toward confidence in AI model training
It's obvious when a dog has been poorly trained. It doesn't respond properly to commands. It pushes boundaries and behaves unpredictably. The same is true with a poorly trained artificial intelligence (AI) model. Only with ...
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Robotic system zeroes in on objects most relevant for helping humans
For a robot, the real world is a lot to take in. Making sense of every data point in a scene can take a huge amount of computational effort and time. Using that information to then decide how to best help a human is an even ...
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'Poisoned' AI models can unleash real-world chaos; study shows how these attacks could be prevented
An unrelenting, ravenous appetite for more and more data may be artificial intelligence's fatal flaw; or at least the fastest way for "poison" to seep in.
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AI model of language in the brain captures both how neurons are arranged and how they function
Neurons—the nerve cells responsible for transmitting electrical and chemical signals throughout the body—are organized in tissue, tending to cluster together in groups according to how they function. For example, language ...
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Computer Sciences
New system quantifies language model personalities through linguistic analysis
Large language models (LLMs) are at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and have been widely used for conversational interactions. However, assessing the personality of a given LLM remains a significant challenge.
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Business
Fake models for fast fashion? What AI clones mean for our jobs—and our identities
In the heart of New York City's Times Square, there are signs of an artificial intelligence (AI) revolution in marketing. In a health supplement store, a popup by British tech startup, Hypervsn, showcases life-size holograms. ...
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Robotics
Scientists are changing number of experiments run by employing coordinated team of AI-powered robots
To build the experimental stations of the future, scientists at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, ...
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Machine learning & AI
Two-thirds of Canadians have experimented with generative AI, but most don't understand its impacts
When ChatGPT entered the public imagination in 2022, Canadians were curious, hopeful, anxious and had plenty of questions. Just three years later, our new report, The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025, finds that ...
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Machine learning & AI
Developments in AI need to be properly regulated as the world scrambles for advantage
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often hailed as the defining technology of the 21st century, shaping everything from economic growth to national security. But as global investment in AI accelerates, many experts are beginning ...
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Security
S. Korea says DeepSeek transferred data to Chinese company without consent
Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek was transferring personal data to a cloud services platform without users' consent while it was still available for download, South Korea's data protection authority said on Thursday.
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Computer Sciences
Algorithm can make AI responses increasingly reliable with less computational overhead
ChatGPT and alike often amaze us with the accuracy of their answers, but unfortunately, they also repeatedly give us cause for doubt. The main issue with powerful AI response engines (artificial intelligence) is that they ...
Apr 24, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Research shows humans are still better than AI at reading the room
Humans, it turns out, are better than current AI models at describing and interpreting social interactions in a moving scene—a skill necessary for self-driving cars, assistive robots, and other technologies that rely on ...
Apr 24, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
California Bar discloses AI was used to develop some questions in problem-plagued February exam
The State Bar of California has disclosed that some multiple-choice questions in a problem-plagued bar exam were developed with the aid of artificial intelligence.
Apr 24, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
'Periodic table of machine learning' framework unifies AI models to accelerate innovation
MIT researchers have created a periodic table that shows how more than 20 classical machine-learning algorithms are connected. The new framework sheds light on how scientists could fuse strategies from different methods to ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Touch meets tech: AI brings tactile textures to 3D-printed objects
Essential for many industries ranging from Hollywood computer-generated imagery to product design, 3D modeling tools often use text or image prompts to dictate different aspects of visual appearance, like color and form. ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Generative AI masters the art of scent creation
Addressing the challenges of fragrance design, researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) have developed an AI model that can automate the creation of new fragrances based on user-defined scent descriptors. ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Researchers develop AI tech that can monitor pitchers using low-resolution video captured by smartphones
University of Waterloo researchers have developed new artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can accurately analyze pitcher performance and mechanics using low-resolution video of baseball games.
Apr 23, 2025
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Hardware
Novel out-of-core mechanism introduced for large-scale graph neural network training
A research team has introduced a new out-of-core mechanism, Capsule, for large-scale GNN training, which can achieve up to a 12.02× improvement in runtime efficiency, while using only 22.24% of the main memory, compared ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Business
Ex-OpenAI workers ask California and Delaware AGs to block for-profit conversion of ChatGPT maker
Former employees of OpenAI are asking the top law enforcement officers in California and Delaware to stop the company from shifting control of its artificial intelligence technology from a nonprofit charity to a for-profit ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Security
From help to harm: How the government is quietly repurposing everyone's data for surveillance
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board reported an unusual spike in potentially sensitive data flowing out of the agency's network in early March 2025 when staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency, ...
Apr 23, 2025
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Computer Sciences
Microsoft introduces an AI model that runs on regular CPUs
A group of computer scientists at Microsoft Research, working with a colleague from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, has introduced Microsoft's new AI model that runs on a regular CPU instead of a GPU. The researchers ...
Robotics
Robot see, robot do: System learns after watching how-to videos
Cornell University researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence—called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution)—that allows robots to learn tasks by watching ...
Apr 22, 2025
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Machine learning & AI
Brain-inspired AI technique mimics human visual processing to enhance machine vision
A team of researchers from the Institute for Basic Science, Yonsei University, and the Max Planck Institute have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) technique that brings machine vision closer to how the human brain ...
Apr 22, 2025
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Business
AI is inherently ageist. That's not just unethical, it can be costly for workers and businesses
The world is facing a "silver tsunami"—an unprecedented aging of the global workforce. By 2030, more than half of the labor force in many EU countries will be aged 50 or above. Similar trends are emerging across Australia, ...
Apr 22, 2025
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