Consumer & Gadgets
While waiting to board a plane on a recent trip out of town, an airline staff member asked me to momentarily take off my face mask to allow the facial recognition technology to check me in to expedite my boarding process. ...
Jan 19, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
When we asked GPT-3, an extremely powerful and popular artificial intelligence language system, whether you'd be more likely to use a paper map or a stone to fan life into coals for a barbecue, it preferred the stone.
Apr 6, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
The emergence of artificial intelligence has caused differing reactions from tech leaders, politicians and the public. While some excitedly tout AI technology such as ChatGPT as an advantageous tool with the potential to ...
Nov 21, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Recent public interest in tools like ChatGPT has raised an old question in the artificial intelligence community: is artificial general intelligence (in this case, AI that performs at human level) achievable?
Mar 31, 2023
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Robotics
In the basement of MIT's Building 3, a robot is carefully contemplating its next move. It gently pokes at a tower of blocks, looking for the best block to extract without toppling the tower, in a solitary, slow-moving, yet ...
Jan 30, 2019
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Internet
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the way we work and interact with machines—and people—in the workplace. The surge in remote working brought on by the pandemic has magnified the need for unmanned work operations. More ...
Feb 8, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Humans have the ability to learn a new concept and then immediately use it to understand related uses of that concept—once children know how to "skip," they understand what it means to "skip twice around the room" or "skip ...
Oct 25, 2023
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Virtual reality (VR) is not only a technology for games and entertainment, but also has potential in science and medicine. Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have now gained new insights into human perception ...
Nov 16, 2023
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Computer Sciences
When you read a sentence like "This is my story...," your past experience tells you that it's written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, ...
Jun 28, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Chalmers and University of Gothenburg has developed a framework to study how language evolves as an effective tool for describing mental concepts. In a new paper, they show that ...
Jul 16, 2020
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