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What is the EU’s AI Office?
31 May

What is the EU’s AI Office?

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The European Commission has unveiled details about its new AI Office, which is being formed to govern the deployment of the general purpose models and the AI Act in the E.U. The office will be composed of five units covering different areas, including regulation, innovation and AI for Societal Good. General purpose models refer to foundational AI models that can be used for a wide range of purposes, some of which may be unknown to the developer, like OpenAI’s GPT-4. Coming into effect on June 16, the office will take charge of tasks such as drawing up codes of practice…
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Robot ANYmal can do parkour and walk across rubble
31 May

Robot ANYmal can do parkour and walk across rubble

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ANYmal has for some time had no problem coping with the stony terrain of Swiss hiking trails. Now researchers at ETH Zurich have taught this quadrupedal robot some new skills: it is proving rather adept at parkour, a sport based on using athletic manoeuvres to smoothly negotiate obstacles in an urban environment, which has become very popular. ANYmal is also proficient at dealing with the tricky terrain commonly found on building sites or in disaster areas. To teach ANYmal these new skills, two teams, both from the group led by ETH Professor Marco Hutter of the Department of Mechanical and…
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Proofpoint’s CISO 2024 Report: Top Challenges Include Human Error & Risk
31 May

Proofpoint’s CISO 2024 Report: Top Challenges Include Human Error & Risk

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In Proofpoint’s 2024 Voice of the CISO report, the cybersecurity company found that CISOs are dealing with people-centric threats more than ever. Plus, cybersecurity budgets often don’t change, and AI can help and hurt CISOs’ efforts. Regarding the specific threat risks, 41% of the CISOs mostly fear ransomware attacks, followed by malware (38%), email fraud (36%), cloud account compromise (34%), insider threat (30%) and distributed denial of service (30%) attacks. Biggest threat risks as perceived by CISOs for the next 12 months. Image: Proofpoint For this report, the research firm Censuswide surveyed 1,600 CISOs from organizations of 1,000 employees or…
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Advanced army robots more likely to be blamed for deaths
31 May

Advanced army robots more likely to be blamed for deaths

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Advanced killer robots are more likely to blamed for civilian deaths than military machines, new research has revealed. The University of Essex study shows that high-tech bots will be held more responsible for fatalities in identical incidents. Led by the Department of Psychology's Dr Rael Dawtry it highlights the impact of autonomy and agency. And showed people perceive robots to be more culpable if described in a more advanced way. It is hoped the study -- published in The Journal of Experimental Social Psychology -- will help influence lawmakers as technology advances. Dr Dawtry said: "As robots are becoming more…
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Gartner Predicts Worldwide Chip Revenue Will Gain 33% in 2024
31 May

Gartner Predicts Worldwide Chip Revenue Will Gain 33% in 2024

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It’s no secret the AI accelerator business is hot today, with semiconductor manufacturers spinning up neural processing units, and the AI PC initiative driving more powerful processors into laptops, desktops and workstations. Gartner studied the AI chip industry and found that, in 2024, worldwide AI chip revenue is predicted to grow by 33%. Specifically, the Gartner report “Forecast Analysis: AI Semiconductors, Worldwide” detailed competition between hyperscalers (some of whom are developing their own chips and calling on semiconductor vendors), the use cases for AI chips, and the demand for on-chip AI accelerators. “Longer term, AI-based applications will move out of…
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Two artificial intelligences talk to each other
31 May

Two artificial intelligences talk to each other

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Performing a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it to others so that they can reproduce it, is a cornerstone of human communication that still resists artificial intelligence (AI). A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has succeeded in modelling an artificial neural network capable of this cognitive prowess. After learning and performing a series of basic tasks, this AI was able to provide a linguistic description of them to a ''sister'' AI, which in turn performed them. These promising results, especially for robotics, are published in Nature Neuroscience. Performing a new task…
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Gartner’s 7 Cloud Computing Predictions for Australia & Globally
31 May

Gartner’s 7 Cloud Computing Predictions for Australia & Globally

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Cloud computing will account for 70% of global enterprise workloads by 2028, up from about 25% now, according to Gartner, and issues like sustainability, AI computing and data sovereignty will play greater roles in how Australian enterprises use and procure cloud vendors. At the Gartner IT infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Sydney, Dennis Smith, a leading cloud computing analyst, told Australian cloud computing executives the cloud had moved from being a technology disrupter to a business disrupter and was now becoming a business essential. “If you don’t have a cloud strategy that’s solid and aren’t executing on it,…
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Bio-inspired cameras and AI help drivers detect pedestrians and obstacles faster
31 May

Bio-inspired cameras and AI help drivers detect pedestrians and obstacles faster

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It's every driver's nightmare: a pedestrian stepping out in front of the car seemingly out of nowhere, leaving only a fraction of a second to brake or steer the wheel and avoid the worst. Some cars now have camera systems that can alert the driver or activate emergency braking. But these systems are not yet fast or reliable enough, and they will need to improve dramatically if they are to be used in autonomous vehicles where there is no human behind the wheel. Quicker detection using less computational power Now, Daniel Gehrig and Davide Scaramuzza from the Department of Informatics…
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Foreign Influence Campaigns Don’t Know How to Use AI Yet Either
30 May

Foreign Influence Campaigns Don’t Know How to Use AI Yet Either

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Today, OpenAI released its first threat report, detailing how actors from Russia, Iran, China, and Israel have attempted to use its technology for foreign influence operations across the globe. The report named five different networks that OpenAI identified and shut down between 2023 and 2024. In the report, OpenAI reveals that established networks like Russia’s Doppleganger and China’s Spamoflauge are experimenting with how to use generative AI to automate their operations. They're also not very good at it.And while it’s a modest relief that these actors haven’t mastered generative AI to become unstoppable forces for disinformation, it’s clear that they’re…
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Robotic metamaterial: An endless domino effect
30 May

Robotic metamaterial: An endless domino effect

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If it walks like a particle, and talks like a particle… it may still not be a particle. A topological soliton is a special type of wave or dislocation which behaves like a particle: it can move around but cannot spread out and disappear like you would expect from, say, a ripple on the surface of a pond. In a new study published in Nature, researchers from the University of Amsterdam demonstrate the atypical behaviour of topological solitons in a robotic metamaterial, something which in the future may be used to control how robots move, sense their surroundings and communicate.…
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