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AI Certification Program Verifies Systems Are 'Fairly Trained'
New system seeks to create a sort of 'organic' or 'fair trade' label for AI.
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Google DeepMind's New AI Matches Gold Medal Performance in Math Olympics
AlphaGeometry incorporates a rule-bound logical model that attempts to find an answer, and a large language model to generate out-of-the-box ideas.
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VW Vehicles to Converse with Drivers via ChatGPT by Mid-Year
Volkswagen (VW) drivers soon will be able to engage in back-and-forth dialogue with their vehicle's voice assistant via ChatGPT integration.
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Housekeeping Humanoid System Can Cook, Clean
A humanoid robotic system could be trained to perform various household tasks, including cooking and organizing.
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Algorithm Identifies Plastic Particles in Bottled Water
Columbia University researchers developed a new microscopy technique and algorithm to analyze the amount of nanoplastics in one-liter bottles of water.
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Robots Key to New Ways of Farming as Labor Shortage Looms
Robots increasingly are being deployed on farms in Japan amid an impending labor shortage.
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Technology Bolsters the Battle Against Wildfires
Technology increasingly is being used to predict and fight wildfires.
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Hochul Proposes NY AI Research Center Using $275 Million in State Funds
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, in a State of the State address on Jan. 9, proposed a consortium that would position the state as a leader in AI development.
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Tesla Recalls 1.6 Million Cars in China to Fix Self-Driving Systems
Tesla is recalling nearly all the vehicles it has sold in China to update their computer software.
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In the Race for AI Supremacy, China and the U.S. are Travelling on Entirely Different Tracks
Beijing set the goal of being the global AI leader by 2030, but that was before the emergence of ChatGPT.
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AI Deepnets Throw Light on Ancient History
Artificial Intelligence helps us read the previously unreadable.
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Dark Corners of the Web Offer a Glimpse at A.I.'s Nefarious Future
In the hands of anonymous Internet users, A.I. tools can create waves of harassing and racist material. It's already happening on the anonymous message board 4chan...
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Eye-Tracking Window Tech Tells Sightseers What They're Seeing
The AR Interactive Vehicle Display combines a transparent microLED panel with eye-tracking and GPS data to inform tour passengers of the sights they are seeing....
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Microsoft Adding New PC Keyboard Button
Microsoft is adding an AI button to its Windows keyboards, the company's first significant keyboard change in nearly three decades.
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Humanoid Robot Acts Out Prompts Like It's Playing Charades
A humanoid robot developed by researchers at Japan's University of Tokyo can be controlled by giving text prompts to the large language model GPT-4.
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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance
The upcoming Paris Summer Olympic Games will serve as a testbed for AI-powered video surveillance, and people's tolerance of its use.
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Chatbots Trained to 'Jailbreak' Rivals
Researchers at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University have "jailbroke" popular large language model (LLM) chatbots.
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New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Use of Copyrighted Work
The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, contending that millions of its articles were used to train automated chatbots that...
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