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Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor, researchers report
11 Nov

Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor, researchers report

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A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train surgical robots eliminates the need to program robots with each individual move required during a medical procedure and brings the field of robotic surgery closer to true autonomy, where robots could perform complex surgeries without human help. "It's really magical to have this model and all we do is feed it camera input and it can predict the robotic movements needed for surgery," said senior author Axel Krieger.…
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The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here
11 Nov

The AI Machine Gun of the Future Is Already Here

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Amid a rising tide of low-cost weaponized adversary drones menacing American troops abroad, the US military is pulling out all the stops to protect its forces from the ever-present threat of death from above. But between expensive munitions, futuristic but complicated directed energy weapons, and its own growing drone arsenal, the Pentagon is increasingly eyeing an elegantly simple solution to its growing drone problem: reinventing the gun.At the Technology Readiness Experimentation (T-REX) event in August, the US Defense Department tested an artificial intelligence-enabled autonomous robotic gun system developed by fledgling defense contractor Allen Control Systems dubbed the “Bullfrog.”Consisting of a…
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10 Nov

Thinking About Research Ideas vs. Technology • David Stutz

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Thinking About Research Ideas vs. Technology In this article, I want to share some thoughts on the difference between research ideas and technology, particularly in machine learning. This distinction is have been contemplating since starting my PhD. After joining Google DeepMind and being involved in product releases such as SynthID, I realized that it can be useful to distinguish between research ideas and technology in many projects, both in industry and academia. These are very much "thoughts in progress" — reach out on Twitter or LinkedIn if you have comments or opinions. A core component of research is the communication…
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12 Steps to Address Australia’s Skills Shortage, Australian Computer Society Reports
08 Nov

12 Steps to Address Australia’s Skills Shortage, Australian Computer Society Reports

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As Australia faces severe ongoing challenges in meeting its IT skills and capabilities needs, the Australian Computer Society recently published its Digital Pulse 2024 report in collaboration with Deloitte. This report is a major research project that will analyse the full scope of the technology environment across the nation. Australia needs 312,000 additional tech workers by 2030 to meet demand, or more than 60,000 additional people entering the tech workforce annually. This is a problem because only 10% of school-aged students are interested in technology careers, and only 52% of parents outside of technology consider tech a viable career for…
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Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Chaos Agent
08 Nov

Donald Trump Isn’t the Only Chaos Agent

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Eight years ago, the November US election results profoundly shocked the small staff at Backchannel, the boutique tech publication I headed. The morning after, an editor posted on our Slack that working on a technology story seemed tone-deaf, if not futile. On a plane from New York to San Francisco, I wrote a column to answer that impulse, directed as much to myself and my colleagues as it was to readers. I argued that regardless of the enormity of this event, one thing hadn’t changed; the biggest story of our time was still the technological revolution we were living through.…
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Robot learns how to clean a washbasin
08 Nov

Robot learns how to clean a washbasin

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Robots are supposed to do boring or unpleasant jobs for us. However, tedious tasks such as cleaning the bathroom are challenging to automate. How is it possible to calculate the movement of a robot arm so that it can reach every part of a washbasin? What if the basin has unusually curved edges? How much force should be applied at which point? It would be highly time-consuming to precisely encode all these things in fixed rules and predefined mathematical formulas. A different approach has been taken at TU Wien: a human shows a robot several times what it should do.…
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Apple’s iOS 18.2 Beta Brings AI Features
08 Nov

Apple’s iOS 18.2 Beta Brings AI Features

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On Nov. 4, Apple released the beta version of iOS 18.2, providing the next look at the artificial intelligence features coming to Apple’s mobile devices broadly in December. Apple also sent out corresponding beta releases for iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision and the development environment XCode 16.2 beta 2. What does iOS 18 beta 2 add? Expanded AI features, including ChatGPT’s integration with Siri, are highlights of the iOS 18.2 beta. The new Apple Intelligence AI features include: Image Playground and Image Wand bring generative AI picture generation and editing tools. Genmoji allows users to create emojis…
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U.K. Government Introduces AI Self-Assessment Tool
07 Nov

U.K. Government Introduces AI Self-Assessment Tool

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The U.K. government has launched a free self-assessment tool to help businesses responsibly manage their use of artificial intelligence. The questionnaire is intended for use by any organisation that develops, provides, or uses services that use AI as part of its standard operations, but it’s primarily intended for smaller companies or start-ups. The results will tell decision-makers the strengths and weaknesses of their AI management systems. How to use AI Management Essentials Now available, the self-assessment is one of three parts of a so-called “AI Management Essentials” tool. The other two parts include a rating system that provides an overview…
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Wearable ultrasound tech for muscle monitoring opens new possibilities in healthcare and human-machine interfaces
07 Nov

Wearable ultrasound tech for muscle monitoring opens new possibilities in healthcare and human-machine interfaces

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Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a wearable ultrasound device that can provide long-term, wireless monitoring of muscle activity with potential applications in healthcare and human-machine interfaces. Designed to stick to the skin with a layer of adhesive and powered by a battery, the device enables high-resolution tracking of muscle function without invasive procedures. A team of researchers led by Sheng Xu, a professor and Jacobs Faculty Scholar in the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering at UC San Diego, published their work Oct. 31 in Nature Electronics. The work was a…
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