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Machine learning & AI

Team develops a way to teach a computer to type like a human

An entirely new predictive typing model can simulate different kinds of users, helping reveal ways to optimize how we use our phones. Developed by researchers at Aalto University, the new model captures the difference between ...

Robotics

Using sim-to-real reinforcement learning to train robots to do simple tasks in broad environments

A team of roboticists at the University of California, Berkeley, reports that it is possible to train robots to do relatively simple tasks by using sim-to-real reinforcement learning to train them. In their study, published ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Visualizing the 1800s or designing wedding invitations: Six ways you can use AI beyond generating text

As more than half of Australian office workers report using generative artificial intelligence (AI) for work, we're starting to see this technology affect every part of society, from banking and finance through to weather ...

Consumer & Gadgets

A new wave of wearable devices will harvest a mountain of personal data

Web and mobile services try to understand the desires and goals of users by analyzing how they interact with their platforms. Smartphones, for instance, capture online data from users at a large scale and low cost.

Business

Q&A: Legal implications of generative artificial intelligence

Maura R. Grossman, JD, Ph.D., is a Research Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, cross-appointed to the School of Public Health Sciences at Waterloo, an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and an ...

Business

Women in tech, AI in focus as Web Summit opens in Rio

The future of artificial intelligence, technology to fight climate change and other glimpses at the cutting edge were in focus Tuesday as mega-tech conference Web Summit opened in Rio de Janeiro.

Hi Tech & Innovation

Butterfly-inspired AI technology takes flight

When it comes to mating, two things matter for Heliconius butterflies: the look and the smell of their potential partner. The black and orange butterflies have incredibly small brains, yet they must process both sensory inputs ...

Business

AI in workplace settings: A hands-on experience

Allaying anxieties, emphasizing potential—with their KI-Studios (AI Studios), experts from the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO are bringing workplace artificial intelligence to life. Their KI-Infomobil ...

Security

Generative AI becoming a concern for supply chain managers

The results of the Lehigh Business Supply Chain Risk Management Index for the second quarter of 2024 show cybersecurity is the biggest risk on supply chain managers' minds for the fifth straight quarter, increasing more than ...

Business

AI companies are courting Hollywood: Do they come in peace?

Artificial intelligence is coming to Hollywood—but is Hollywood ready for it? OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is meeting with entertainment industry players, including executives at talent agencies and film studios, ...

Internet

OpenAI unveils voice-cloning tool

OpenAI on Friday revealed a voice-cloning tool it plans to keep tightly controlled until safeguards are in place to thwart audio fakes meant to dupe listeners.

Electronics & Semiconductors

Next-generation AI semiconductor devices mimic the human brain

A research team led by Prof. Kwon Hyuk-jun of the DGIST Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has developed a next-generation AI semiconductor technology that mimics the human brain's efficiency in AI ...

Computer Sciences

Brain-inspired chaotic spiking backpropagation

Since it was discovered in the 1980s that learning in the rabbit brain utilizes chaos, this nonlinear and initially value-sensitive dynamical behavior has been increasingly recognized as integral to brain learning.

Business

Enhancing defect detection performance in smart factories

Prof. Sang Hyun Park's research team in the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST has developed a logical anomaly detection technology in collaboration with a team from Stanford University. This technology ...

Internet

How AI discriminates and what that means for your Google habit

Safiya Umoja Noble swears she is not a Luddite. But she does think we could all learn a thing or two from the machine-bashing textile craftsmen in 19th-century Britain whose name is now synonymous with technological skepticism.