Generative AI models can produce images in response to prompts within seconds, and they’ve recently been used for everything from highlighting their own inherent bias to preserving precious memories. Now, researchers from Stephen James’s Robot Learning Lab in London are using image-generating AI models for a new purpose: creating training data [...]
Thu, Oct 03, 2024
Source Technology Review – Artificial Intelligence
Imagine you’re tasked with sending a team of football players onto a field to assess the condition of the grass (a likely task for them, of course). If you pick their positions randomly, they might cluster together in some areas while completely neglecting others. But if you give them a [...]
Wed, Oct 02, 2024
Source MIT – Artificial Intelligence
In the United States and around the world, democracy is under threat. Anti-democratic attitudes have become more prevalent, partisan polarization is growing, misinformation is omnipresent, and politicians and citizens sometimes question the integrity of elections. With this backdrop, the MIT Department of Political Science is launching an effort to establish a [...]
Tue, Oct 01, 2024
Source MIT – Artificial Intelligence
Miniature robots on the millimeter scale often lack the strength to transport instruments for endoscopic microsurgery through the body. Scientists are now combining several millimeter-sized TrainBots into one unit and equipping them with improved 'feet'. For the first time, the team was able to perform an electric surgical procedure on [...]
Tue, Oct 01, 2024
Source Science Daily – Artificial Intelligence
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In AI research, everyone seems to think that bigger is better. The idea is that more data, more computing power, and more parameters will lead to models [...]
Tue, Oct 01, 2024
Source Technology Review – Artificial Intelligence
This article is from The Debrief with Mat Honan, MIT Technology Review’s weekly newsletter from its editor in chief. To receive it every Friday, sign up here. In case you missed the memo, we are barreling toward the next big consumer device category: smart glasses. At its developer conference this week, Meta [...]
Tue, Oct 01, 2024
Source Technology Review – Artificial Intelligence
Have you ever wanted to travel through time to see what your future self might be like? Now, thanks to the power of generative AI, you can.Researchers from MIT and elsewhere created a system that enables users to have an online, text-based conversation with an AI-generated simulation of their potential [...]
Tue, Oct 01, 2024
Source MIT – Artificial Intelligence
Engineers developed a system that helps robots quickly map a scene and identify items they need to complete a set of tasks. [...]
Mon, Sep 30, 2024
Source Science Daily – Artificial Intelligence
A row of five photos of animal faces atop five photos of inanimate objects that look like faces
In 1994, Florida jewelry designer Diana Duyser discovered what she believed to be the Virgin Mary’s image in a grilled cheese sandwich, which she preserved and later auctioned for $28,000. But how much do we really understand about pareidolia, the phenomenon of seeing faces and patterns in objects when they aren’t [...]
Mon, Sep 30, 2024
Source MIT – Artificial Intelligence
Humane Intelligence, an organization focused on evaluating AI systems, is launching a competition that challenges developers to create a computer vision model that can track hateful image-based propaganda online. Organized in partnership with the Nordic counterterrorism group Revontulet, the bounty program opens September 26. It is open to anyone, 18 [...]
Wed, Sep 25, 2024
Source Technology Review – Artificial Intelligence
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 [...]
Wed, Sep 25, 2024
Source Science Daily – Artificial Intelligence
Scientists at MPI-IS have developed electrically driven robotic components, called HEXEL modules, which can snap together into high-speed reconfigurable robots. Magnets embedded along the outside of the modules allow them to electrically and mechanically connect to other modules, forming robots with diverse shapes and capabilities. HEXEL modules are a promising [...]
Wed, Sep 18, 2024
Source Science Daily – Artificial Intelligence

 

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