Cheerful chatbots don't necessarily improve customer service
Humans displaying positive emotions in customer service interactions have long been known to improve customer experience, but researchers wanted to see if this also applied to AI. They conducted experimental studies to determine if positive emotional displays improved customer service and found that emotive AI is only appreciated if the customer expects it, and it may not be the best avenue for companies to invest in.
Wi-Fi could help identify when you're struggling to breathe
Wi-Fi routers continuously broadcast radio frequencies that your phones, tablets and computers pick up and use to get you online. As the invisible frequencies travel, they bounce off or pass through everything around them—the walls, the furniture and even you.
More efficient monitoring of wind turbines and electric vehicles
Researcher Sveinung Attestog shows in a new study how we can more quickly detect faults in machines that are widely used in wind turbines and electric cars. This is something that could pay off for electricity customers and car owners.
New software based on artificial intelligence helps to interpret complex data
More is not always better—sometimes, it's a problem. With highly complex data, which have many dimensions due to their numerous parameters, correlations are often no longer recognizable. Especially since experimentally obtained data are additionally disturbed and noisy due to influences that cannot be controlled.
Why have I spent all this time walking normally, like an idiot? What happened when I tried Moonwalkers
The makers of the wheeled shoes promise to turbo-charge your daily stroll, allowing you to walk at 250% of your usual speed. Could they be the future of pedestrianism?
Presentation tool Tome launches AI to help make storytelling simpler
The software provides a skeleton of images and text that users can customize to their own needs.
DeepMind’s AI cuts energy costs for cooling buildings
Research firm DeepMind has built an AI to optimise cooling systems in buildings. In tests, it reduced energy usage by around 10 per cent
Should we tax robots?
A small tax on robots, as well as on trade generally, will help reduce income inequality in the U.S., according to economists.
Virtual reality game to objectively detect ADHD
A virtual reality game offers an objective assessment of attention deficit disorders and may lead to an improved therapeutic approach.
Scientists turn to AI to design better battery electrolytes
Designing a battery is a three-part process. You need a positive electrode, you need a negative electrode, and—importantly—you need an electrolyte that works with both electrodes.
From DALL-E 2 to ChatGPT, covering AI’s wild year | The AI Beat
From DALL-E 2 to ChatGPT, the AI beat was challenging and overwhelming in 2022. It's been humbling. And awesome.
The promise and peril of ChatGPT, a remarkably powerful AI chatbot
Analysts and pundits predict that Open AI's new ChatGPT would bring about everything from the "death of the school essay" to the dawn of a new age of communication. But what is ChatGPT, and how could it change our lives?
Engineers help artificial intelligence to learn more safely in the real world
Penn State researchers are looking for a safer and more efficient way to use machine learning in the real world. Using a simulated high-rise office building, they developed and tested a new reinforcement learning algorithm aimed at improving energy consumption and occupant comfort in a real-world setting.
Study shows how machine learning could predict rare disastrous events, like earthquakes or pandemics
When it comes to predicting disasters brought on by extreme events (think earthquakes, pandemics or "rogue waves" that could destroy coastal structures), computational modeling faces an almost insurmountable challenge: Statistically speaking, these events are so rare that there's just not enough data on them to use predictive models to accurately forecast when they'll happen next.
How Matter 1.0 will enable smart home devices to work together with all major ecosystems
Backed by 550+ tech companies, including Apple, Google and Amazon, Matter 1.0 specification solves the connectivity issue for smart devices.
A face recognition framework based on vision transformers
Face recognition tools are computational models that can identify specific people in images, as well as CCTV or video footage. These tools are already being used in a wide range of real-world settings, for instance aiding law enforcement and border control agents in their criminal investigations and surveillance efforts, and for authentication and biometric applications.
New winged robot can land like a bird
Researchers have developed a method that allows a flapping-wing robot to land autonomously on a horizontal perch using a claw-like mechanism. The innovation could significantly expand the scope of robot-assisted tasks.