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How Do We Know How Smart AI Systems Are?
A tradition in AI is to give systems tests designed to assess human intelligence, but there are several reasons we should be cautious in interpreting this as evidence...
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Building Robust Optical Structures Made of Darkness
A team of Harvard University researchers harnessed metasurfaces to generate and manipulate dark regions in electromagnetic fields called "optical singularities."...
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Robot Uses Fake Raspberry to Practice Picking Fruit
Scientists engineered a robot that practiced raspberry-picking on a silicone raspberry mockup with an artificial stem to ensure it learned how to handle the fragile...
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Atlas of Biomedical Literature Could Help Track Down Fabricated Studies
An atlas of biomedical literature could prove useful in identifying fraudulent studies.
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Sweater-Wrapped Robots Can Feel, React to Human Touch
The RobotSweater machine-knitted textile "skin" can sense contact and pressure to make a robot "smarter during its interaction with humans."
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3D-Knitted Robots
Researchers printed soft robots using three-dimensional (3D) knitting technology.
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Seals Provided Inspiration for Waddling Robot
Seals and other pinnipeds inspired researchers to develop a waddling soft robot that reportedly features "improved degrees of freedom, gait trajectory diversity...
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Quantum Computer Tackles Airport Problem
An international team of researchers is developing and testing algorithms for problems involving quantum circuits.
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Grasping the Future with a Robotic Hand-Arm Combo
Yale University researchers have created a robotic hand-arm combination that uses algorithms to optimize its degrees of freedom and control though unified movement...
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Advancing AI Research Infrastructure Through NSF Investments
The awards will focus on specific aspects of artificial intelligence research infrastructure and instrumentation.
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Physicists Extend Qubit Lifespan in Pivotal Validation of Quantum Computing
Yale University physicists demonstrated the feasibility of quantum error correction by doubling the lifespan of a qubit.
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How ChatGPT and Similar AI will Disrupt Education
Teachers are concerned about cheating and inaccurate information.
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Cyborg Technology Analyzes Functional Maturation of Stem-Cell Derived Heart Tissue
A "cyborg" technique developed by Harvard University researchers can monitor the functional maturation of heart tissue using nanoelectronics.
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AI Re-Creates What People See by Reading Brain Scans
The Stable Diffusion artificial intelligence algorithm can read functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans to replicate images people have recently...
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Breakthrough Enables Perfectly Secure Digital Communications
A new algorithm hides sensitive information in a way that makes it impossible to detect anything has been concealed.
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Computers That Power Self-Driving Cars Could Drive Global Carbon Emissions
Researchers found the computational needs of self-driving cars could drive a significant increase in global carbon emissions.
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Inside the Lab Growing Mushroom Computers
The Unconventional Computing Laboratory of the U.K.'s University of the West of England focuses on developing chemical or living computers that can interface with...
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Vocal Amplification Patch Could Help Stroke Patients, First Responders
Scientists at China's Tsinghua and Shanghai Jiao Tong universities have engineered a "graphene-based intelligent, wearable artificial throat"patch that can amplify...
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Google Vice President Warns AI Chatbots Are Hallucinating
Google senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan has warned the public about a little-known problem with artificial intelligence chatbots: they "hallucinate."
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