The TikTok Hearing Revealed That Congress Is the Problem
The interrogation of CEO Shou Zi Chew highlighted US lawmakers’ own failure to pass privacy legislation.
Robot caterpillar demonstrates new approach to locomotion for soft robotics
Researchers have demonstrated a caterpillar-like soft robot that can move forward, backward and dip under narrow spaces. The caterpillar-bot’s movement is driven by a novel pattern of silver nanowires that use heat to control the way the robot bends, allowing users to steer the robot in either direction.
New in-home AI tool monitors the health of elderly residents
Engineers are harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and wireless technology to unobtrusively monitor elderly people in their living spaces and provide early detection of emerging health problems.
Bug in Google Markup, Windows Photo-Cropping Tools Exposes Removed Image Data
Image-editing tools from Google and Microsoft contain the “aCropalypse” bug, which can reveal information users intentionally removed.
Speech AI, supercomputing in the cloud, and GPUs for LLMs and generative AI among Nvidia’s next big moves
At GTC, Nvidia talked up AI supercomputing service DGX Cloud, NeMo service to combine LLMs with proprietary data, and new inference GPUs.Read More
Shining a light into the ‘black box’ of AI
Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a novel method for evaluating the interpretability of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, opening the door to greater transparency and trust in AI-driven diagnostic and predictive tools. The innovative approach sheds light on the opaque …
How You Can Tell the AI Images of Trump’s Arrest Are Deepfakes
Doctored images of the former US president went viral on Twitter. These are the telltale signs that they aren’t what they seem.
As Nvidia pushes to democratize AI, here’s everything it announced at GTC 2023
At GTC 2023, Nvidia announced innovations to democratize access to tools capable of building generative AI applications like ChatGPT.Read More
Australian report cites ‘datafication’ of childhood
To protect privacy in our homes we may build fences, grow shrubs, hang curtains and install security cameras.
With GPT-4, dangers of ‘Stochastic Parrots’ remain, say researchers. No wonder OpenAI CEO is a ‘bit scared’ | The AI Beat
Looking back at a seminal paper on AI ethics and realizing there are lessons from it that the AI community needs to keep in mind today.Read More