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Chatbot Iris offers students individual support
17 Jul

Chatbot Iris offers students individual support

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How can a chatbot support students in lectures and with assigned exercises? Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the chatbot Iris, which offers computer science students personalized assistance with programming assignments. A study has now confirmed the chatbot's success: Iris improves the understanding of programming concepts and represents a valuable complement to human tutors. A packed auditorium with over 1000 students. This is not a rare sight in introductory informatics lectures. To meet the needs of each individual student under these conditions, Stephan Krusche, professor of Software Engineering, and his team have been building the Artemis…
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Ant insights lead to robot navigation breakthrough
17 Jul

Ant insights lead to robot navigation breakthrough

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Have you ever wondered how insects are able to go so far beyond their home and still find their way? The answer to this question is not only relevant to biology but also to making the AI for tiny, autonomous robots. TU Delft drone-researchers felt inspired by biological findings on how ants visually recognize their environment and combine it with counting their steps in order to get safely back home. They have used these insights to create an insect-inspired autonomous navigation strategy for tiny, lightweight robots. The strategy allows such robots to come back home after long trajectories, while requiring…
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OpenAI Touts New AI Safety Research. Critics Say It’s a Good Step, but Not Enough
17 Jul

OpenAI Touts New AI Safety Research. Critics Say It’s a Good Step, but Not Enough

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OpenAI has faced opprobrium in recent months from those who suggest it may be rushing too quickly and recklessly to develop more powerful artificial intelligence. The company appears intent on showing it takes AI safety seriously. Today it showcased research that it says could help researchers scrutinize AI models even as they become more capable and useful.The new technique is one of several ideas related to AI safety that the company has touted in recent weeks. It involves having two AI models engage in a conversation that forces the more powerful one to be more transparent, or “legible,” with its…
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Scientists develop new artificial intelligence method to create material ‘fingerprints’
17 Jul

Scientists develop new artificial intelligence method to create material ‘fingerprints’

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Study shows how materials change as they are stressed and relaxed. Like people, materials evolve over time. They also behave differently when they are stressed and relaxed. Scientists looking to measure the dynamics of how materials change have developed a new technique that leverages X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. This technique creates "fingerprints" of different materials that can be read and analyzed by a neural network to yield new information that scientists previously could not access. A neural network is a computer model that makes decisions in a manner similar to the human brain.…
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The Paris Olympics Will Show Us the Future of Sports on TV
17 Jul

The Paris Olympics Will Show Us the Future of Sports on TV

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The OBS is producing its video content in ultrahigh definition and high dynamic range, which should spruce up the level of detail and color in every shot. Content is also being captured in all manner of formats: vertical video for watching clips on phones, 8K video for the highest-definition broadcasts, and 360-degree shots for truly immersive drama.The OBS says it has more than doubled the multi-camera systems it uses to capture multiple angles of the action for super-slow-motion replays later. It will also use cinematic camera lenses, which are capable of capturing artsier shots, like enhanced depth-of-field changes that you’ve…
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AI found to boost individual creativity — at the expense of less varied content
16 Jul

AI found to boost individual creativity — at the expense of less varied content

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Stories written with AI assistance have been deemed to be more creative, better written and more enjoyable. A new study published in the journal Science Advances finds that AI enhances creativity by boosting the novelty of story ideas as well as the 'usefulness' of stories -- their ability to engage the target audience and potential for publication. It finds that AI "professionalizes" stories, making them more enjoyable, more likely to have plot twists, better written and less boring. In a study in which 300 participants were tasked with writing a short, eight-sentence 'micro story' for a target audience of young…
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UK Regulator Checking Microsoft and Inflection AI Hires for ‘Merger Situation’
16 Jul

UK Regulator Checking Microsoft and Inflection AI Hires for ‘Merger Situation’

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Inflection AI co-founder Mustafa Suleyman joined Microsoft as CEO of Microsoft AI in March, and took “several” coworkers with him. Now, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has opened an inquiry into whether this and Microsoft’s other deals with Inflection should be considered anti-competitive. The CMA has until Sept. 11, 2024 to decide whether to continue the investigation. Why Microsoft hiring from Inflection drew the CMA’s attention The inquiry will study “whether it is or may be the case that Microsoft Corporation’s hiring of certain former employees of Inflection and its entry into associated arrangements with Inflection has resulted…
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Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI
16 Jul

Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI

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In response to the suits, defendants such as Meta, OpenAI, and Bloomberg have argued that their actions constitute fair use. A case against EleutherAI, which originally scraped the books and made them public, was voluntarily dismissed by the plaintiffs.Litigation in remaining cases remains in the early stages, leaving the questions surrounding permission and payment unresolved. The Pile has since been removed from its official download site, but it’s still available on file-sharing services.“Technology companies have run roughshod,” said Amy Keller, a consumer protection attorney and partner at the firm DiCello Levitt who has brought lawsuits on behalf of creatives whose…
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Thomson Reuters’ Future of Professionals Report Shows Cautious Optimism Toward AI in Law
15 Jul

Thomson Reuters’ Future of Professionals Report Shows Cautious Optimism Toward AI in Law

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It has been a common refrain today that generative AI can take over simpler tasks but struggles with more difficult ones. In that case, how much does generative AI actually save time or improve performance at work? Thomson Reuters, a professional services and technology company in the fields of law, tax, compliance and more, explored how professionals are using AI in its 2024 Future of Professionals report. We spoke to Thomson Reuters Chief Product Officer David Wong about generative AI in the workplace in an exclusive interview about the release of the report. Thomson Reuters surveyed 2,205 professionals in legal,…
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AI Chatbots have shown they have an ’empathy gap’ that children are likely to miss
13 Jul

AI Chatbots have shown they have an ’empathy gap’ that children are likely to miss

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Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have frequently shown signs of an "empathy gap" that puts young users at risk of distress or harm, raising the urgent need for "child-safe AI," according to a study. The research, by a University of Cambridge academic, Dr Nomisha Kurian, urges developers and policy actors to prioritise approaches to AI design that take greater account of children's needs. It provides evidence that children are particularly susceptible to treating chatbots as lifelike, quasi-human confidantes, and that their interactions with the technology can go awry when it fails to respond to their unique needs and vulnerabilities. The study…
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