AI's carbon footprint problem
For all the advances enabled by artificial intelligence, from speech recognition to self-driving cars, AI systems consume a lot of power and can generate high volumes of climate-changing carbon emissions.
Trump contracts Peter Thiel-backed startup to build his (virtual) border wall
The White House has struck a deal with Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industrial to erect an AI-powered partition along the US-Mexico border.
When speech assistants listen even though they shouldn't
Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the Bochum Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Cyber Security and Privacy have investigated which words inadvertently activate voice assistants. They compiled a list of English, German, and Chinese terms that were repeatedly misinterpreted by smart speakers as prompts.
Prolonged avoidance training exacerbates OCD-like behaviors in a rodent model
This review covers the history of procedural content generation (PCG) approaches for video games, and how these approaches are now used to generate training data and environments for machine learning models. The authors then discuss how PCG may be crucial for training agents which generalise well.
Research reflects how AI sees through the looking glass
Things are different on the other side of the mirror.
Copying Handwritten Text Has Never Been Easier...
Handwriting a piece of text can be tedious to do, especially if it is the same text written out multiple times. The formality of giving handwritten letters is still present in the 21st Century, which is not a bad idea, but how about we speed things u
Goldman explains Apple Card algorithmic rejections, including bankruptcies
The system Apple uses to approve or deny Apple Card applicants is a black box, so we reached out to learn how Goldman's algorithm works -- and it's not AI.
AI system learns to model how fabrics interact by watching videos
Researchers propose an AI system that learns to model the physical interactions between types of fabrics by watching videos.
Facebook again admits to wrongly sharing user data with third-party apps
Facebook has admitted that it mistakenly gave around 5,000 developers unauthorized access to user profile due to a bug in the platform.
COVID-KG uses AI to scan thousands of studies to answer doctors’ coronavirus questions
In a new paper, researchers from Columbia, Brandeis, Darpa, UCLA, UIUC, and elsewhere describe an AI framework that answers questions about COVID-19.
MIT has removed a dataset which leads to misogynistic, racist AI models
MIT has apologised for, and taken offline, a dataset which trains AI models with misogynistic and racist tendencies.
Science fiction becomes fact: Teleportation helps to create live musical performance
Teleportation is most commonly the stuff of science fiction and, for many, would conjure up the immortal phrase "Beam me up, Scotty".
This jellyfish robot can outswim its squishy animal cousin
Scientists have created soft robots inspired by jellyfish that can outswim their real-world counterparts.
Reverse engineering of 3-D-printed parts by machine learning reveals security vulnerabilities
Over the past 30 years, the use of glass and carbon-fiber reinforced composites in aerospace and other high-performance applications has soared along with the broad industrial adoption of composite materials.
Inside China’s plan to lead the world in AI
China announced in 2017 its ambition to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030. While the US still leads in absolute terms, China appears to be making more rapid progress than either the US or the EU, and central and local go
MIT takes down 80 Million Tiny Images data set due to racist and offensive content
The 80 Million Tiny Images data set was taken offline following an audit that found images labelled with racist, sexist, or otherwise offensive words.
Research reflects how AI sees through the looking glass
Intrigued by how reflection changes images in subtle and not-so-subtle ways, a team of researchers used artificial intelligence to investigate what sets originals apart from their reflections. Their algorithms learned to pick up on unexpected clues such as hair parts, gaze direction and, surprisingly, beards - findings with implications for training machine learning models and detecting faked images.
Teleportation in live musical performance
A new study explains for the first time how quantum supercomputers could be helpful in the world of making and performing music.