Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter
Engineers developed a system that helps robots quickly map a scene and identify items they need to complete a set of tasks.
New method enables robots to map a scene, identify objects in order to complete a set of tasks
Imagine having to straighten up a messy kitchen, starting with a counter littered with sauce packets. If your goal is to wipe the counter clean, you might sweep up the packets as a group. If, however, you wanted to first pick out the mustard packets before throwing the rest away, you would sort more discriminately, …
The Best Instax Cameras and Printers We Tested (2024)
Should you buy an Instax Mini? Instax Mini Evo? Instax Square? We demystify Fujifilm’s Instax lineup to help you find the perfect instant camera (or printer).
Why AI is a know-it-all know nothing
Today’s AI systems can’t earn our trust by sharing the reasoning behind what they say, because there is no such reasoning.Read More
An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse—and Keeping NASA Up at Night
A NASA inspector general report gives new details on a leak that has plagued the ISS for five years, and reveals that the agency considers it the highest-level risk.
Shrinking AR displays into eyeglasses to expand their use
Augmented reality (AR) takes digital images and superimposes them onto real-world views. But AR is more than a new way to play video games; it could transform surgery and self-driving cars. To make the technology easier to integrate into common personal devices, researchers report how to combine two optical technologies into a single, high-resolution AR …
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Why Microsoft’s security initiative and Apple’s cloud privacy matter to enterprises now
Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) and Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (PCC)’s goals are to harden cloud security and privacy at scale.Read More
The Titan Submersible Hearings End With Few Solid Answers. Here’s What Comes Next
The Coast Guard hearings into the OceanGate disaster are done. Next comes the full report—and any potential criminal investigations.
As LLMs grow bigger, they’re more likely to give wrong answers than admit ignorance
A team of AI researchers at Universitat Politècnica de València, in Spain, has found that as popular LLMs (Large Language Models) grow larger and more sophisticated, they become less likely to admit to a user that they do not know an answer.
Computing scheme accelerates machine learning while improving energy efficiency of traditional data operations
Artificial intelligence (AI) models like ChatGPT run on algorithms and have great appetites for data, which they process through machine learning, but what about the limits of their data-processing abilities? Researchers led by Professor Sun Zhong from Peking University’s School of Integrated Circuits and Institute for Artificial Intelligence set out to solve the von Neumann …