Researchers seek to reduce harm to multicultural users of voice assistants
Users of voice assistants such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant know the frustration of being misunderstood by a machine.
Jul 12, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
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Machine learning & AI
AI accessibility? Blind gamer puts ChatGPT to the test
Japanese eSports gamer Mashiro is blind and often relies on a companion to get around Tokyo—but he hopes that artificial intelligence, hailed as a promising tool for people with disabilities, can help him travel alone.
Jul 11, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability—but it can improve
While seeking research internships last year, University of Washington graduate student Kate Glazko noticed recruiters posting online that they'd used OpenAI's ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools to summarize ...
Jun 22, 2024
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Business
US billionaire eyes TikTok takeover to save internet from Big Tech
Frank McCourt, a US real estate billionaire, aims to buy TikTok to rescue the internet from the clutches of major platforms that he firmly believes are destroying society and endangering children.
Jun 19, 2024
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Internet
Surgeon general calls on Congress to require social media warning labels, like those on cigarettes
The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes.
Jun 17, 2024
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Telecom
Why are people sending voice messages? Communications expert explains phenomena
Sometimes a text isn't enough, but a phone or video call would be too much.
Jun 12, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Future-self chatbot gives users a glimpse of the life ahead of them
A team of AI researchers with members from several institutions in the U.S. and KASIKORN Labs, in Thailand, has built an AI-based chatbot that allows users to chat with a potential version of their future selves.
Machine learning & AI
Supercomputer helps retrain AIs to avoid creating offensive pictures for specific cultures
If you ask an AI image generator to give you a picture of something, the results can range from appropriate to clueless to downright offensive. It's particularly bad for cultures that aren't well represented in the Internet's ...
Jun 4, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Scientists modify the configuration parameters of 'phantom sensations' so that people can perceive them
Can people feel through the sense of touch in the absence of a real tactile stimulation? In other words, can we feel the sensation of being touched when in reality we are not? This is what is known as "phantom sensation," ...
May 29, 2024
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Security
Q&A: What are deepfakes and should we be worried?
Deepfakes are creating havoc across the globe, spreading fake news and pornography, being used to steal identities, exploiting celebrities, scamming ordinary people and even influencing elections.
May 22, 2024
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