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Researchers harness generative AI to preserve Cantonese porcelain art and heritage
The advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked concerns about the diminishing value of traditional art forms and the potential for substitution. Nonetheless, through their fusion, they offer new avenues ...
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Machine learning & AI
AI is creeping into the visual effects industry—and it could take the human touch out of film and TV
From the mind-bending reality warps of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) to the breathtaking alien vistas of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), visual effects have transported us to worlds beyond imagination. ...
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Apple researchers suggest artificial intelligence is still mostly an illusion
Researchers at Apple Computer Company have found evidence, via testing, showing that the seemingly intelligent responses given by AI-based LLMs are little more than an illusion. In their paper posted on the arXiv preprint ...
Study reveals AI-generated images depict idealized youth
If you've been using artificial intelligence (AI) for a while, you may have noticed that both the texts and images it creates can be a bit generic and polished. Some would call them soulless.
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Fake AI history photos cloud the past
A wave of touching photos showing great moments in time is fascinating amateur historians online. The problem? They are not real—and may be clouding our view of the past.
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Machine learning & AI
Is AI going to destroy movies or is the panic overblown? A film historian says these fears are not new
Artificial intelligence is making its way into your favorite movies and TV shows, bringing with it plenty of fear and anxiety from those who work in and around the entertainment industry.
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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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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 ...
Engineering
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 ...
Energy & Green Tech
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 ...
Oct 15, 2024
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Business
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.
Oct 15, 2024
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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 ...
Oct 15, 2024
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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 ...
Oct 15, 2024
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Business
Do people trust AI on financial decisions? We found it really depends on who they are
When it comes to investing and planning your financial future, are you more willing to trust a person or a computer?
Oct 15, 2024
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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. ...
Oct 15, 2024
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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.
Oct 15, 2024
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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.
Oct 15, 2024
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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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