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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Do You Think the Chatbot Likes Me?
Artificial intelligence chatbots increasingly are being given distinct personalities to increase the appeal of interacting with them.
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Bigger, Not Necessarily Better
The inverse scaling issue means larger LLMs sometimes handle things less well.
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What Would the Chatbot Say?
Seeking to explain the unanticipated abilities of large language models.
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Laureates Look Past the Hype in Generative AI
Attendees at this year's Heidelberg Laureate Forum anticipate future applications of the technology.
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Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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Decoding Speech
Working to translate thoughts to speech or actions via a brain-computer interface.
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Measuring AI Creativity
Quantifying artificial intelligence's capacity for creativity requires an understanding of what creativity is.
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Buddying Up to AI
Artificial Intelligence-based companions and chatbots allow people to form deep connections through long-term interactions.
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The Promise of Holographic Displays
The computational expense of creating three-dimensional images that can be viewed by all is just one factor holding them back.
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Using AI to Fight Food Fraud
The use of artificial intelligence to test food and beverages to determine whether labels accurately indicate their content.
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Using AI to Improve Farm Animal Welfare
Technology helps to interpret what animals are thinking and feeling, from what they utter and how they move.
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Finding the Fairness in AI
Algorithmic fairness is more or less obtainable, depending on how you measure it.
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AI Helps Craft New Beers
Machine learning and neural networks can help manage the recipes for new beers, and predict how they will taste.
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Interacting With Computers Through Smell
Odors could help direct attention in virtual environments, among other things.
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Predicting Preterm Birth
Can machine learning provide advance notice of an extreme preterm birth, in sufficient time to implement a therapeutic intervention?
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Reducing Digital Overload
Considering ways to curb screen time and build healthier habits.
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Detecting Deception
Advanced machine learning algorithms can spot lying even better than a polygraph.
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Predicting When Volcanoes Will Blow
Experts hope machine learning can help warn local residents of impending eruptions.
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The View from On High
Satellite imagery could address the limitations in traditional sources of data.12