The Disrupter’s Disrupter Tells Us to Ignore Our Instincts
James Bridle’s “Ways of Being” encourages readers to look for intelligence outside the brain box.
Robot overcomes uncertainty to retrieve buried objects
FuseBot is a new robotic system that fuses visual information and radio-frequency signals to efficiently find hidden items buried under a pile of objects, whether or not the targeted item has an RFID tag.
Researchers use GPUs to evaluate human brain connectivity
A new GPU-based machine learning algorithm developed by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) can help scientists better understand and predict connectivity between different regions of the brain.
Even if they’re not actually intelligent, AIs may shift the nature of human expression itself | JR Hennessy
Impressive pattern-matching machines like DALL-E 2 and GPT-3 may not understand meaning, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t radically disruptive
The dangers of big data extend to farming
Big data from social media have been revealed as biased, but we should also pay attention to agriculture firms whose play for big data is likely to have detrimental environmental and social impacts.
An Android application checks how roasted coffee beans are
Coffee, one of the most popular and consumed drinks worldwide, is made from water and coffee beans. Coffee beans are the seeds of the Coffea plant, which is grown in several parts of central and South America, as well as in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Chatbots need to evolve to stay relevant in the age of virtual assistants
There’s a trove of untapped potential—much of which centers around brining conversational AI into the core customer experience.
Who's really in control?
Researchers studied the effect of the 'attitudes' of a semi-autonomous telepresence robot on its human operator. They found that when a person controlled only a part of the body of a semi-autonomous robot, its expressed opinions affected him or her. This work may help assist in the development of new semi-autonomous robots to perform labor more efficiently.
Artificially intelligent robot perpetuates racist and sexist prejudice
Virtual robot run by artificial intelligence acts in a way that conforms to toxic stereotypes when asked to pick faces that belong to criminals or homemakers
Humans in the loop help robots find their way
Computer scientists develop a method that allows humans to help complex robots build efficient solutions to 'see' their environments and carry out tasks.
Schools Are Spending Billions on High-Tech Defense for Mass Shootings
The market for weapon detectors and crisis alert badges in schools is booming. But there are questions about whether the new technology is effective.
Google’s AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch: mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought
Linguistics helps explain why humans fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient, conscious, or intelligent.
Using electric signals from human brains, new software can perform computerized image editing
Soon, computers could sense that users have a problem and come to the rescue. This is one of the possible implications of new research at University of Copenhagen and University of Helsinki.
New algorithms track ships in harbors
The security of port areas involves monitoring at various levels. What kind of ships are coming in, are they perhaps guilty of illegal fishing, and what cargo do they carry? Security officers and harbor masters often can't carry out these control duties all by themselves, which is why ports around the world are increasingly making use of smart surveillance systems to monitor maritime territory.
Researchers develop a wearable textile exomuscle
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a wearable textile exomuscle that serves as an extra layer of muscles. They aim to use it to increase the upper body strength and endurance of people with restricted mobility.
Google's powerful AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch: Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought
Fluent expression is not always evidence of a mind at work, but the human brain is primed to believe so. A pair of cognitive linguistics experts explain why language is not a good test of sentience.
Artificial intelligence: conscious or just very convincing? – podcast
Alex Hern reports on recent developments in artificial intelligence and how a Google employee became convinced an AI chatbot was sentient
Robots learn to play with play dough
The inner child in many of us feels an overwhelming sense of joy when stumbling across a pile of the fluorescent, rubbery mixture of water, salt, and flour that put goo on the map: play dough. (Even if this happens rarely in adulthood.)