Muscle signals can pilot a robot
CSAIL's Conduct-A-Bot system uses muscle signals to cue a drone’s movement, enabling more natural human-robot communication.
Algorithmic unconscious: why psychoanalysis helps in understanding AI
The AI for Social Good movement aims to apply AI/ML tools to help in delivering on the United Nations’ sustainable development goals (SDGs). Here, the authors identify the challenges and propose guidelines for designing and implementing successful partnerships between AI researchers and application - domain experts.
View: How artificial intelligence can revolutionise e-commerce
AI has the ability to gather and analyse information in real-time, helping brands identify consumer behaviour patterns and ensuring their strategies are dynamic enough to engage users and generate high conversion rates.
AI can tackle the climate emergency – if developed responsibly
We need to challenge the simplistic assumptions that AI will automatically improve the world.
Researchers rebuild the bridge between neuroscience and artificial intelligence
Researchers have successfully rebuilt the bridge between experimental neuroscience and advanced artificial intelligence learning algorithms. Conducting new types of experiments on neuronal cultures, the researchers were able to demonstrate a new accelerated brain-inspired learning mechanism.
AI can search satellite data to find plastic floating in the sea
AI can check satellite images of the ocean and distinguish between floating materials such as seaweed or plastics, which could help clean-up efforts
Shedding light on complex power systems
Senior Research Scientist Marija Ilic is making electric energy systems future-ready.
Reducing the carbon footprint of artificial intelligence
MIT system cuts the energy required for training and running neural networks.
Researchers restore injured man's sense of touch using brain-computer interface technology
Researchers have been able to restore sensation to the hand of a research participant with a severe spinal cord injury using a brain-computer interface (BCI) system. The technology harnesses neural signals that are so minuscule they can't be perceived and enhances them via artificial sensory feedback sent back to the participant, resulting in greatly enriched motor function.
An ESPN Commercial Hints at Advertising’s Deepfake Future
With the pandemic having shut down production, companies are asking ad agencies to create commercials made up of digitally altered footage.
AI lets you be Albert Einstein or the Mona Lisa on all your Zoom calls
An AI-powered application lets you create real-time deepfakes during video calls, making you appear to be speaking as anyone from Albert Einstein to the Mona Lisa
AI can distinguish between bots and humans based on Twitter activity
Artificial intelligence can tell whether a human or a bot is posting on Twitter based on how regularly they post and how much they reply to others, which could help identify fake accounts
New scavenger technology allows robots to 'eat' metal for energy
New research is bridging the gap between batteries and energy harvesters like solar panels. Their 'metal-air scavenger' gets the best of both worlds.
With lidar and artificial intelligence, road status clears up after a disaster
Automated tools can help emergency managers make decisions, plan routes, and quantify road damage at city scales.
Professor Daniela Rus named to White House science council
CSAIL director and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing deputy dean of research will serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
We're measuring online conversation to track the social and mental health issues surfacing during the coronavirus pandemic
America's news reports and social media chatter open a window into the nation's psyche. An AI-based text analysis of these words shows that the coronavirus is driving up familiar social ills.
Replacing workers has many costs
As more and more Americans are laid off, employers have to consider the cost of letting their staff go.
Identifying threshold responses of Australian dryland rivers to future hydroclimatic change
Redox-responsive transcriptional regulators can enable user-specified electronic control over biological functions. Here the authors demonstrate electronic control of CRISPRa and CRISPRi using redox signalling.