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, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Consumer & Gadgets

AI helps stroke survivors find their voice

A new approach using generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT is showing promise in enhancing communication for people with language disorders.

Internet

xAI apologizes for Grok's offensive posts

Elon Musk's startup xAI apologized Saturday for offensive posts published by its artificial intelligence assistant Grok this week, blaming them on a software update meant to make it function more like a human.

Hi Tech & Innovation

Researcher develops generative learning model to predict falls

In a study published in the journal Information Systems Research, Texas Tech University's Shuo Yu and his collaborators developed a generative machine learning model to detect instability before a fall occurs. The hope is ...

Robotics

Humanoid robot says not aiming to 'replace human artists'

When successful artist Ai-Da unveiled a new portrait of King Charles this week, the humanoid robot described what inspired the layered and complex piece, and insisted it had no plans to "replace" humans.