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White House sets policies for federal AI use
"Concrete safeguards" for government use of artificial intelligence were announced by the White House Thursday, as it vowed they would serve as a model for "global action."
Machine learning & AI
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Amazon pours an additional $2.75 billion into AI startup Anthropic
Amazon said Wednesday it is pouring an additional $2.75 billion into Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the artificial intelligence startup to $4 billion.
Business
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Robotic face makes eye contact, uses AI to anticipate and replicate a person's smile before it occurs
What would you do if you walked up to a robot with a human-like head and it smiled at you first? You'd likely smile back and perhaps feel the two of you were genuinely interacting. But how does a robot know how to do this? ...
Robotics
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At GDC 2024, tech companies offer a glimpse of AI-powered characters
Glimpses of the future often emerge at the Game Developers Conference. It's where indie games generate a buzz or the kernel of a big idea is planted. This year, artificial intelligence took center stage as Nvidia showed off ...
Business
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Q&A: The flip side of safety is an attack on privacy—regulating face recognition technology
If you bought a phone in the past few years, chances are you barely ever type your password anymore: your face unlocks not only your phone, but also your social media, your Duke MyChart portal and even your banking app.
Security
Mar 27, 2024
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California looks to Europe to rein in AI
California, home to Silicon Valley, is eager to rein in the deployment of artificial intelligence and is looking to Europe's tough-on-big-tech approach for inspiration.
Business
Mar 27, 2024
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Food safety: Two-stage process of extraction and classification to identify ingredients in photos of food
Research published in the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems discusses a new approach to the identification of ingredients in photographs of food. The work will be useful in our moving forward on ...
Software
Mar 26, 2024
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Tired of AI doomsday tropes, Cohere CEO says his goal is technology that's 'additive to humanity'
Aidan Gomez can take some credit for the 'T' at the end of ChatGPT. He was part of a group of Google engineers who first introduced a new artificial intelligence model called a transformer.
Business
Mar 25, 2024
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A deep-learning and transfer-learning hybrid aerosol retrieval algorithm for a geostationary meteorological satellite
A study published in Engineering introduces an innovative high-precision aerosol algorithm for a geostationary meteorological satellite.
Engineering
Mar 25, 2024
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My search for the mysterious missing secretary who shaped chatbot history
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Distinctive Collections archive is quiet while the blizzard blows outside. Silence seems to be accumulating with the falling snow. I am the only researcher in the archive, ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 25, 2024
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Research finds AI algorithms can help 'mumpreneurs'
New research, led by academics from Royal Holloway, University of London found AI algorithms generated significant economic and non-economic value for "mumpreneurs."
Business
Mar 25, 2024
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Study tests if AI can help fight cybercrime
Artificial Intelligence (AI) could become a crucial asset to fight the growing global risk of cybercrime, a new study with Charles Darwin University (CDU) has found.
Security
Mar 25, 2024
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Engineering household robots to have a little common sense
From wiping up spills to serving up food, robots are being taught to carry out increasingly complicated household tasks. Many such home-bot trainees are learning through imitation; they are programmed to copy the motions ...
Robotics
Mar 25, 2024
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Large language models use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge
Large language models, such as those that power popular artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT, are incredibly complex. Even though these models are being used as tools in many areas, such as customer support, code ...
Computer Sciences
Mar 25, 2024
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Generative AI could leave users holding the bag for copyright violations
Generative artificial intelligence has been hailed for its potential to transform creativity, and especially by lowering the barriers to content creation. While the creative potential of generative AI tools has often been ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 23, 2024
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'Did you feel this AI cared about you?' Startup announces 'nursebots'
Medical startup Hippocratic AI is collaborating with California-based tech company NVIDIA to develop empathetic health care agents using artificial intelligence.
Machine learning & AI
Mar 23, 2024
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AI's excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions
Water is needed for development, production and consumption, yet we are overusing and polluting an unsubstitutable resource and system.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 22, 2024
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Top computer scientists say the future of artificial intelligence is similar to that of Star Trek
Leading computer scientists from around the world have shared their vision for the future of artificial intelligence—and it resembles the capabilities of Star Trek character "The Borg."
Computer Sciences
Mar 22, 2024
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Forced labor in the clothing industry is rampant and hidden. This AI-powered search platform can expose it
Almost all of the clothing sold in America comes from overseas, making a long journey on a shipping container into a domestic port. Peer inside any apparel shipment bound for customs checkpoints, groaning with t-shirts or ...
Business
Mar 22, 2024
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Machine 'unlearning' helps generative AI forget copyright-protected and violent content
When people learn things they should not know, getting them to forget that information can be tough. This is also true of rapidly growing artificial intelligence programs that are trained to think as we do, and it has become ...
Machine learning & AI
Mar 22, 2024
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