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Hardware
Taichi: A large-scale diffractive hybrid photonic AI chiplet
A combined team of engineers from Tsinghua University and the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, both in China, has developed a large-scale diffractive hybrid photonic AI chiplet for ...
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Using sound waves for photonic machine learning: Study lays foundation for reconfigurable neuromorphic building blocks
Optical neural networks may provide the high-speed and large-capacity solution necessary to tackle challenging computing tasks. However, tapping their full potential will require further advances. One challenge is the reconfigurability ...
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AI model could optimize e-commerce sites for users who are color blind
University of Toronto researcher Parham Aarabi has created an artificial intelligence model that mimics how people use e-commerce websites—and it may be able to help retailers optimize their sites for people experiencing ...
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Deepfake detection improves when using algorithms that are more aware of demographic diversity
Deepfakes—essentially putting words in someone else's mouth in a very believable way—are becoming more sophisticated by the day and increasingly hard to spot. Recent examples of deepfakes include Taylor Swift nude images, ...
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Can AI read our minds? Probably not, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be worried
Earlier this year, Neuralink implanted a chip inside the brain of 29-year-old US man Noland Arbaugh, who is paralyzed from the shoulders down. The chip has enabled Arbaugh to move a mouse pointer on a screen just by imagining ...
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Machine learning & AI
AI's new power of persuasion: Study shows LLMs can exploit personal information to change your mind
A new EPFL study has demonstrated the persuasive power of large language models, finding that participants debating GPT-4 with access to their personal information were far more likely to change their opinion compared to ...
Apr 15, 2024
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Automotive
Improved AI confidence measure for autonomous vehicles
A new Bar-Ilan University study addresses a fundamental question in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI): Can deep learning architectures achieve greatly above-average confidence for a significant portion of inputs while ...
Apr 15, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
AI can write you a poem and edit your video. Now, it can help you be funnier
University of Sydney researchers have used an AI-assisted application to help people write cartoon captions for cartoons published in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest.
Apr 15, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
The hidden risk of letting AI decide: Losing the skills to choose for ourselves
As artificial intelligence creeps further into people's daily lives, so do worries about it. At the most alarmist are concerns about AI going rogue and terminating its human masters.
Apr 15, 2024
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Business
OpenAI comes to Asia with new office in Tokyo
ChatGPT creator OpenAI opened a new office in Tokyo on Monday, the first Asian outpost for the groundbreaking tech company as it aims to ramp up its global expansion.
Apr 15, 2024
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Business
AI-generated models could bring more diversity to the fashion industry—or leave it with less
London-based model Alexsandrah has a twin, but not in the way you'd expect: Her counterpart is made of pixels instead of flesh and blood.
Apr 15, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Clear guidelines needed for synthetic data to ensure transparency, accountability and fairness, study says
Clear guidelines should be established for the generation and processing of synthetic data to ensure transparency, accountability and fairness, a new study says.
Apr 13, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Large language models generate biased content, warn researchers
A new report led by researchers from UCL finds that the most popular artificial intelligence (AI) tools discriminate against women and people of different cultures and sexualities.
Apr 12, 2024
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Engineers recreate Star Trek's Holodeck using ChatGPT and video game assets
In "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Captain Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise leverage the Holodeck, an empty room capable of generating 3D environments, of preparing for missions and entertaining them, simulating ...
Apr 11, 2024
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Computer Sciences
New computer vision tool can count damaged buildings in crisis zones and accurately estimate bird flock sizes
A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst working on two different problems—how to quickly detect damaged buildings in crisis zones and how to accurately estimate the size of bird flocks—recently ...
Apr 11, 2024
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