Machine learning & AI news
Robotics
New method enables robots to map a scene, identify objects in order to complete a set of tasks
Imagine having to straighten up a messy kitchen, starting with a counter littered with sauce packets. If your goal is to wipe the counter clean, you might sweep up the packets as a group. If, however, you wanted to first ...
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Machine learning & AI
AI pareidolia: Can machines spot faces in inanimate objects?
In 1994, Florida jewelry designer Diana Duyser discovered what she believed to be the Virgin Mary's image in a grilled cheese sandwich, which she preserved and later auctioned for $28,000. But how much do we really understand ...
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Don't believe the hype: Artificial general intelligence is far from inevitable, researchers say
Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes show new proof that those ...
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Q&A: Professor discusses the risks international organizations face with AI and data protection
Policymakers across the globe are grappling with the vast implications of advances in artificial intelligence technology, including how these tools will be used by international organizations.
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Researcher wants to ensure AI doesn't ruin the environment
Artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the world as we know it. It's been used for everything from health-care monitoring to writing speeches. But the technology's impact on the environment is becoming a serious concern.
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Machine learning & AI
How do we know if ChatGPT can recognize a face?
For the last year, ChatGPT has been able to analyze images as well as text as a feature of its latest version—GPT-4V(ision).
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Internet
Online spaces are rife with toxicity. Well-designed AI tools can help clean them up
Imagine scrolling through social media or playing an online game, only to be interrupted by insulting and harassing comments. What if an artificial intelligence (AI) tool stepped in to remove the abuse before you even saw ...
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Business
California governor vetoes AI safety bill
California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill aimed at regulating powerful artificial intelligence models following pushback from tech giants and critics who argued the law went too far.
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Robotics
LiDAR-based system allows unmanned aerial vehicle team to rapidly reconstruct environments
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have proved to be highly effective systems for monitoring and exploring environments. These autonomous flying robots could also be used to create detailed maps and ...
Consumer & Gadgets
As LLMs grow bigger, they're more likely to give wrong answers than admit ignorance
A team of AI researchers at Universitat Politècnica de València, in Spain, has found that as popular LLMs (Large Language Models) grow larger and more sophisticated, they become less likely to admit to a user that they ...
Business
OpenAI discusses giving Altman 7% stake in for-profit shift
OpenAI is discussing giving Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman a 7% equity stake in the company and restructuring to become a for-profit business, people familiar with the matter said, a major shift that would mark the first ...
Sep 27, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Computing scheme accelerates machine learning while improving energy efficiency of traditional data operations
Artificial intelligence (AI) models like ChatGPT run on algorithms and have great appetites for data, which they process through machine learning, but what about the limits of their data-processing abilities? Researchers ...
Sep 26, 2024
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Engineering
New study shows AI can forecast mining disasters
Artificial Intelligence can forecast gas-related incidents in coal mines within half an hour, according to a new study exploring how the technology can reduce the risk of disasters.
Sep 26, 2024
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Business
Regulating artificial intelligence: From BRICS to beyond
Researchers from the Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) program recently participated in a seminar inviting expert dialogue on the role of BRICS competition authorities in the fast-maturing era of artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Sep 26, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here's how—and why it's a problem
Have you noticed certain words and phrases popping up everywhere lately?
Sep 26, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
In a new manifesto, OpenAI's Sam Altman envisions an AI utopia—and reveals glaring blind spots
By now, many of us are probably familiar with artificial intelligence hype. AI will make artists redundant! AI can do lab experiments! AI will end grief!
Sep 26, 2024
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Business
OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company
OpenAI's history as a nonprofit research institute that also sells commercial products like ChatGPT may be coming to an end as the San Francisco company looks to more fully convert itself into a for-profit corporation accountable ...
Sep 26, 2024
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Business
OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and 2 other execs are leaving the ChatGPT maker
A high-ranking executive at OpenAI who served a few days as its interim CEO during a period of turmoil last year said she's leaving the artificial intelligence company.
Sep 26, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Replacing hype about AI in journal articles with accurate measurements of success
The hype surrounding machine learning, a form of artificial intelligence, can make it seem like it is only a matter of time before such techniques are used to solve all scientific problems. While impressive claims are often ...
Sep 25, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
ChatGPT's rise linked to decline in public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms
A new study published in PNAS Nexus reveals that the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, has led to a significant decline in public knowledge sharing on platforms like Stack Overflow. The ...
Sep 25, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
AI-guided experimentation identifies better energy storage solution
Finding a needle in a haystack is the quintessentially impossible task. But what if new tools could make it straightforwardly achievable? Imagine if, instead of searching through everything by hand, you could portion out ...
Sep 25, 2024
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Security
AI is fueling a deepfake porn crisis in South Korea. What's behind it—and how can it be fixed?
It's difficult to talk about artificial intelligence without talking about deepfake porn—a harmful AI byproduct that has been used to target everyone from Taylor Swift to Australian school girls.
Sep 25, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
OpenAI's Strawberry program is reportedly capable of reasoning. It might be able to deceive humans
OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT, has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) system called Strawberry. It is designed not just to provide quick responses to questions, like ChatGPT, but to think or "reason."
Sep 25, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
Meta bets big on celebrity AI voices and augmented reality glasses
Meta launched AI chatbots voiced by Hollywood celebrities including Judi Dench and John Cena on Wednesday, betting its billions of users are eager to embrace artificial intelligence.
Sep 25, 2024
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Engineering
AI helps detect and monitor infrastructure defects
Thanks to recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), civil engineers can inspect large-scale infrastructure more efficiently and cost-effectively, while also monitoring the progression of damage severity over time.
Sep 25, 2024
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