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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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Here Come the Killer Robots
Despite concerns, autonomous AI weapons and defense systems for military applications are on the rise.
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Scientists Putting LLM Brains Inside Robot Bodies
Robotics researchers are using large language models (LLMs) to skirt preprogramming limits.
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'AI Godfather', Others Urge More Deepfake Regulation
More than 400 AI experts and executives from various industries signed an open letter calling for increased regulation of deepfakes.
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Service Robots Roll Forward
Transitioning from classic 'programmed automation' to modern 'AI-powered autonomy.'
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What's That Smell?
Digital scent technologies bring aromas to virtual reality.
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Robot Invasion Hit a Bump in 2023
The Association for Advancing Automation reported a 30% decline in robot orders by companies in North America last year.
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The Text File that Runs the Internet
For decades, robots.txt governed the behavior of Web crawlers. But as unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the Web...
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Waymo Recalls Software After Two Self-Driving Cars Hit the Same Truck
Waymo, the self-driving car division of Alphabet, issued a recall for its software after two of its vehicles hit the same pickup truck minutes apart in Phoenix....
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Your Body Is Your Next Security Key
Biometric scanning and AI advances could replace the need for badges to enter buildings and regular password resets to access websites.
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The Campaign Against Deepfakes
Digital deceit is on the rise and needs to be addressed.
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OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Better 'Memory'
The A.I. start-up is releasing a new version of ChatGPT that stores what users say and applies it to future chats.
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Judge Rejects Most ChatGPT Copyright Claims from Book Authors
OpenAI plans to defeat authors' remaining claim at a "later stage" of the case.
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Imran Khan's 'Victory Speech' from Jail Shows AI's Peril, Promise
Despite being imprisoned, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has garnered support for his political party using AI.
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Computer-Engineered DNA to Study Cell Identities
A new algorithm can be used to design synthetic DNA segments that provide real-time information about the identity and state of cells.
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How to Find a Needle in a Haystack
AI pattern recognition algorithms speed up the search.
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CERN Robot Detects Radiation Leaks
A dog-like robot undergoing tests by researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) could be used to detect potential radiation leaks in challenging...
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Guaranteeing the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
Computer scientists developed of method to ensure end-to-end safety of autonomous vehicles by guaranteeing the results of the machine learning algorithms used to...
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The State of the Metaverse
After years and many attempts to build out a metaverse and make use of it, is there anything out there?
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