Machine learning & AI news
Robotics
Low-cost touch sensor shows promise for large-scale robotics applications
The development of affordable and highly performing sensors can have crucial implications for robotics research, as it could improve perception to help boost robot manipulation and navigation. In recent years, engineers have ...
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Automotive
New tool helps analyze pilot performance and mental workload in augmented reality
In the high-stakes world of aviation, a pilot's ability to perform under stress can mean the difference between a safe flight and disaster. Comprehensive and precise training is crucial to equip pilots with the skills needed ...
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OpenAI unveils benchmarking tool to measure AI agents' machine-learning engineering performance
A team of AI researchers at Open AI, has developed a tool for use by AI developers to measure AI machine-learning engineering capabilities. The team has written a paper describing their benchmark tool, which it has named ...
Computer simulations reveal stability factors in 2D perovskites for better solar cells
More stable and efficient materials for solar cells are needed in the green transition. So-called halide perovskites are highlighted as a promising alternative to today's silicon materials. Researchers at Chalmers University ...
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New York Times takes aim at another AI company
The New York Times has sent a cease and desist letter to Perplexity, a hot AI startup often touted as a promising competitor to Google search, over alleged copyright infringement.
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Machine learning & AI
There are major risks, but also solutions for AI in the Global South
While artificial intelligence (AI) promises immense benefits, it also imposes tremendous risks. Some of them—accelerating misinformation, sophisticated cyber attacks and soaring energy consumption—have already arrived. ...
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Software
How AI can help you make a computer game without knowing anything about coding
Just as calculators took over the tedious number-crunching in math a few decades ago, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming coding. Take Kyo, an 8-year-old boy in Singapore who developed a simple platform game in just ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
The AI sexbot industry is just getting started. It brings strange new questions—and risks
Artificial intelligence (AI) is getting personal. Chatbots are designed to imitate human interactions, and the rise of realistic voice chat is leading many users to form emotional attachments or laugh along with virtual podcast ...
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Machine learning & AI
Adobe launches AI video generator in race with OpenAI, Meta
Adobe Inc. unveiled artificial intelligence tools that can create and modify videos, joining Big Tech companies and startups in trying to capitalize on demand for the emerging technology.
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Business
How the tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla has turned the AI boom into a digital gold mine
The artificial intelligence boom has benefited chatbot makers, computer scientists and Nvidia investors. It's also providing an unusual windfall for Anguilla, a tiny island in the Caribbean.
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Automotive
AI-trained vehicles can adjust to extreme turbulence on the fly
In nature, flying animals sense coming changes in their surroundings, including the onset of sudden turbulence, and quickly adjust to stay safe. Engineers who design aircraft would like to give their vehicles the same ability ...
Oct 14, 2024
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Software
New AI model for hi-res video generation, Pyramid Flow, is available as open-source software
A team of AI researchers from Peking University, Kuaishou Technology, and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, has developed a new AI model called Pyramid Flow, that can be used to generate virtual hi-resolution ...
Security
Attack simulator reveals oversight in AI image recognition tools and mitigation for cyber threat
Artificial intelligence can help people process and comprehend large amounts of data with precision, but the modern image recognition platforms and computer vision models that are built into AI frequently overlook an important ...
Oct 14, 2024
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Security
For AI, secrecy often does not improve security
Concern about misuse of artificial intelligence has led political leaders to consider regulating the emerging technology in ways that could limit access to AI models' inner workings. But researchers at a group of leading ...
Oct 14, 2024
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Engineering
Machine learning models could alleviate risks posed by cracking and corroding concrete structures, say scientists
Scientists say they have designed machine learning models able to predict when and why structures built of reinforced concrete start deteriorating and cracking.
Oct 14, 2024
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Robotics
Researchers tout effectiveness of individual optimization algorithms for human–robot interactions
A patient recovering from a limb amputation won't use a prostheses that isn't comfortable. A person rehabbing from a stroke won't use a robotic exoskeleton if the mobility it grants doesn't allow them to perform everyday ...
Oct 14, 2024
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Internet
Multi-task learning model enhances hate speech identification
Researchers have developed a new way to automatically detect hate speech on social media platforms more accurately and consistently using a new multi-task learning (MTL) model; a type of machine learning model that works ...
Oct 14, 2024
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Business
As OpenAI attracts new investment, balancing profit with purpose is getting more challenging to pull off
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that developed the popular ChatGPT chatbot and the text-to-art program Dall-E, is at a crossroads. On Oct. 2, 2024, it announced that it had obtained US$6.6 billion in new funding ...
Oct 14, 2024
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Business
Opinion: Australia has led the way regulating gene technology for over 20 years—here's how it should apply that to AI
Since 2019, the Australian Department for Industry, Science and Resources has been striving to make the nation a leader in "safe and responsible" artificial intelligence (AI). Key to this is a voluntary framework based on ...
Oct 14, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Integer addition algorithm could reduce energy needs of AI by 95%
A team of engineers at AI inference technology company BitEnergy AI reports a method to reduce the energy needs of AI applications by 95%. The group has published a paper describing their new technique on the arXiv preprint ...
Machine learning & AI
Changing OpenAI's nonprofit structure would raise questions about its future
The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion.
Oct 12, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Documents show OpenAI's long journey from nonprofit to $157B valued company
Back in 2016, a scientific research organization incorporated in Delaware and based in Mountain View, California, applied to be recognized as a tax-exempt charitable organization by the Internal Revenue Service.
Oct 12, 2024
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Security
Can ChatGPT flag potential terrorists? Study uses automated tools and AI to profile violent extremists
Technology such as ChatGPT could play a complementary role and help profile terrorists and identify the likelihood of them engaging in extremist activity, according to a study which could make anti-terrorism efforts more ...
Oct 11, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
AI is having its Nobel moment. Do scientists need the tech industry to sustain it?
Hours after the artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton won a Nobel Prize in physics, he drove a rented car to Google's California headquarters to celebrate.
Oct 11, 2024
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