Machine learning & AI

Germany to create AI safety agency

The German government has announced it is setting up an institute for artificial intelligence safety designed to analyze the performance and risks of AI models.

Robotics

Could AI tell you where you left your keys?

An auto factory worker can remember the storage bin where she left a partly assembled component the night before and quickly return to that spot to pick it up. But robots that may work side by side with her would struggle ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Intelligent, but not conscious: A warning about AI chatbots

Have you ever said "thanks" to ChatGPT, or "please" to Claude? Maybe you're just being polite, showing some civility to a helpful and eloquent conversational partner. You may even consider politeness a safe choice, just in ...

Computer Sciences

Forgetting may be the secret to better AI language learning

Giving AI a human-like memory limitation may actually help it learn language better. In their new proof-of-principle study, Abishek Thamma (University of Amsterdam) and Micha Heilbron (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) ...

Machine learning & AI

AI robots can go rogue: A researcher on how easily it happens

Earlier this year in Beijing, a humanoid robot crossed a half-marathon finish line in a blistering 50 minutes, 26 seconds. The feat immediately lit up global headlines for shattering the human world record by almost seven ...

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