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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Machine learning & AI
In 1950, British computer scientist Alan Turing proposed an experimental method for answering the question: can machines think? He suggested if a human couldn't tell whether they were speaking to an artificially intelligent ...
Oct 17, 2023
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Computer Sciences
In June 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines by claiming the company's LaMDA chatbot had achieved sentience. The software had the conversational ability of a precocious seven-year-old, Lemoine said, and we should ...
Sep 12, 2023
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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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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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Machine learning & AI
Progress in artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of AIs that perform tasks previously thought only possible for humans, such as translating languages, driving cars, playing board games at world-champion level ...
Jul 26, 2022
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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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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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Robotics
Human beings have the ability to recognize emotions in others. Although perfectly capable of communicating with humans through speech, robots and virtual agents are only good at processing logical instructions, which greatly ...
Apr 28, 2021
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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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