Artificial Intelligence News

December 5, 2023

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AI Networks Are More Vulnerable to Malicious Attacks Than Previously Thought

Dec. 4, 2023 — Artificial intelligence tools hold promise for applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to the interpretation of medical images. However, a new study finds these AI tools are more vulnerable ...

A Color-Based Sensor to Emulate Skin's Sensitivity

Dec. 1, 2023 — In a step toward more autonomous soft robots and wearable technologies, researchers have created a device that uses color to simultaneously sense multiple mechanical and temperature ...

Brainstorming With a Bot

Dec. 1, 2023 — Electronic nanomaterials experts have imagined how recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) could aid scientific brainstorming and ideation. To accomplish this, they have developed a chatbot with knowledge in the ...

2D Material Reshapes 3D Electronics for AI Hardware

Nov. 30, 2023 — Researchers demonstrated monolithic 3D integration of layered 2D material into novel processing hardware for artificial intelligence computing. The new approach provides a material-level solution for fully integrating many functions into a single, ...

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Scientists Use A.I.-Generated Images to Map Visual Functions in the Brain

Nov. 30, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated the use of AI-selected natural images and AI-generated synthetic images as neuroscientific tools for probing the visual processing areas of the brain. The goal is to ...

How Do You Make a Robot Smarter? Program It to Know What It Doesn't Know

Nov. 28, 2023 — Engineers have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don't know. The technique involves quantifying the fuzziness of human language and using that measurement to tell robots when ...

Creativity in the Age of Generative AI: A New Era of Creative Partnerships

Nov. 20, 2023 — Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) has propelled AI into the mainstream, raising concerns about job displacement and creative work. Experts now emphasize a need to focus on 'co-creativity,' the human-AI ...

Researchers Engineer a Material That Can Perform Different Tasks Depending on Temperature

Nov. 28, 2023 — Researchers report that they have developed a new composite material designed to change behaviors depending on temperature in order to perform ...

Defending Your Voice Against Deepfakes

Nov. 27, 2023 — Computer scientists have developed AntiFake, a tool to protect voice recordings from unauthorized speech ...

New Method Uses Crowdsourced Feedback to Help Train Robots

Nov. 27, 2023 — A new technique enables an AI agent to be guided by data crowdsourced asynchronously from nonexpert human users as it learns to complete a task through reinforcement learning. The method trains the ...

AI: Researchers Develop Automatic Text Recognition for Ancient Cuneiform Tablets

Nov. 20, 2023 — A new artificial intelligence (AI) software is now able to decipher difficult-to-read texts on cuneiform tablets. Instead of photos, the AI system ...

How We Play Together

Nov. 21, 2023 — Psychologists are using EEG to research what games reveal about our ability to ...

AI System Self-Organizes to Develop Features of Brains of Complex Organisms

Nov. 20, 2023 — Scientists have shown that placing physical constraints on an artificially-intelligent system -- in much the same way that the human brain has to develop and operate within physical and biological ...

Use It or Lose It: New Robotic System Assesses Mobility After Stroke

Nov. 16, 2023 — Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability worldwide. Each year more than 15 million people worldwide have strokes, and three-quarters of stroke survivors will experience impairment, weakness ...

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Exposure to Soft Robots Decreases Human Fears About Working With Them

Dec. 5, 2023 — Seeing robots made with soft, flexible parts in action appears to lower people's anxiety about working with them or even being replaced by them. A study found that watching videos of a soft ...

AI Can 'Lie and BS' Like Its Maker, but Still Not Intelligent Like Humans

Nov. 20, 2023 — A researcher contends that the understanding of AI is muddled by linguistics: That while indeed intelligent, AI cannot be intelligent in the way that humans are, even though 'it can lie and BS ...

The Mind's Eye of a Neural Network System

Nov. 16, 2023 — A new tool, based on topology, makes finding the areas where neural networks are confused as simple as spotting mountaintops from an airplane. The ability to spot and address those areas of confusion ...

Realistic Talking Faces Created from Only an Audio Clip and a Person's Photo

Nov. 16, 2023 — A team of researchers has developed a computer program that creates realistic videos that reflect the facial expressions and head movements of the person speaking, only requiring an audio clip and a ...

This 3D Printer Can Watch Itself Fabricate Objects

Nov. 15, 2023 — Engineers have developed a high-throughput, multimaterial 3D inkjet printer that uses computer vision to rapidly and automatically control the amount of material being deposited during the printing ...

Individual Back Training Machine Developed

Nov. 14, 2023 — 18 percent of reported sick leave relates to musculoskeletal ailments, in particular back-related disorders. The GyroTrainer is an intelligent training device that resembles a balance board. It uses ...

Engineers Are on a Failure-Finding Mission

Nov. 9, 2023 — Engineers developed a technique to quickly identify a range of potential failures in a system before they are deployed in the real ...

How Human Faces Can Teach Androids to Smile

Nov. 9, 2023 — A research team used 125 physical markers to understand the detailed mechanics of 44 different human facial motions. The aim was to better understand how to convey emotions with artificial faces. ...

Machine Learning Gives Users 'Superhuman' Ability to Open and Control Tools in Virtual Reality

Nov. 7, 2023 — Researchers have developed a virtual reality application where a range of 3D modelling tools can be opened and controlled using just the movement of a user's ...

Neuromorphic Computing Will Be Great... If Hardware Can Handle the Workload

Nov. 6, 2023 — Scientists believe they may have discovered a way to rework the hardware of AI. By mimicking the synapses of the human ...

450-Million-Year-Old Organism Finds New Life in Softbotics

Nov. 6, 2023 — Researchers have used fossil evidence to engineer a soft robotic replica of pleurocystitids, a marine organism that existed nearly 450 million years ago and is believed to be one of the first ...

AI Should Be Better Understood and Managed -- New Research Warns

Nov. 2, 2023 — Artificial Intelligence (AI) and algorithms can and are being used to radicalize, polarize, and spread racism and political instability, says an academic. An expert argues that AI and algorithms are ...

Nanowire 'Brain' Network Learns and Remembers 'on the Fly'

Nov. 1, 2023 — Like a collection of 'Pick Up Sticks', this neural network has passed a critical step for developing machine intelligence. For the first time, a physical neural network has successfully ...

The Brain May Learn About the World the Same Way Some Computational Models Do

Oct. 30, 2023 — New studies support the idea that the brain uses a process similar to a machine-learning approach known as 'self-supervised learning.' This type of machine learning allows computational ...

Robot Stand-in Mimics Movements in VR

Oct. 27, 2023 — Researchers have developed a souped-up telepresence robot that responds automatically and in real-time to a remote user's movements and gestures made in virtual ...

Engineers Develop Breakthrough 'Robot Skin'

Oct. 26, 2023 — Smart, stretchable and highly sensitive, a new soft sensor opens the door to a wide range of applications in robotics and prosthetics. When applied to the surface of a prosthetic arm or a robotic ...

Vision Via Sound for the Blind

Oct. 25, 2023 — Smart glasses that use a technique similar to a bat's echolocation could help blind and low-vision people navigate their surroundings, according to ...

Oct. 25, 2023 — Researchers have now developed a technique that advances the ability of these tools, such as ChatGPT, to make compositional generalizations. This technique, Meta-learning for Compositionality, ...

Plant-Based Materials Give 'Life' to Tiny Soft Robots

Oct. 23, 2023 — A team of researchers has created smart, advanced materials that will be the building blocks for a future generation of soft medical microrobots. These tiny robots have the potential to conduct ...

Adaptive Optical Neural Network Connects Thousands of Artificial Neurons

Oct. 23, 2023 — Physicists working with computer specialists have developed a so-called event-based architecture, using photonic processors. In a similar way to the brain, this makes possible the continuous ...

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