You’re connected with hundreds of people — maybe even thousands — on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. But when you log in to each of these social networks, it’s likely that you don’t want to be bombarded by every single update from every…
The classic 1995 crime film The Usual Suspects revolves around the police interrogation of Roger “Verbal” Kint, played by Kevin Spacey. Kint paraphrases Charles Baudelaire, stating that “the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” The implication is…
Machine learning typically requires tons of examples. To get an AI model to recognize a horse, you need to show it thousands of images of horses. This is what makes the technology computationally expensive—and very different from human learning. A child often…
Princeton physicist Hong Qin creates an AI algorithm that can predict planetary orbits. The scientist partially based his work on the hypothesis which believes reality is a simulation. The algorithm is being adapted to predict behavior of plasma and can be used…
Robert Julian-Borchak Williams was at his job at an automotive supply company on Jan. 9, 2020, when Detroit police called and told him to report to Detroit’s 3rd Precinct: The caller said police intended to arrest him—at work if necessary—but wouldn’t say…
AI is not tossing out all the rules and methods of software development learned over the last 50 years, just many of them. Rule-based AI systems borrow from rule-based expert system development, which tapped the knowledge of human experts to solve complex…
In 2019, as the Department of Defense considered adopting AI ethics principles, the Defense Innovation Unit held a series of meetings across the U.S. to gather opinions from experts and the public. At one such meeting in Silicon Valley, Stanford University professor Herb…
At a recent CNRS conference organised on the theme “Artificial intelligence: the computer overcomes the language barrier”, the researcher Farah Benamara spoke about advances in automatic processing of evaluative language, a term that refers to the expression of opinions and positive or…
File this one under: While the rest of the world was busy trying to get virtual assistants to tell dad jokes, researchers in Estonia figured out how to Deepfake people at the molecular level. We’ve seen a delightful onslaught of AI-generated content over…
A trio of researchers at Ghent University has combined a convolutional neural network with computational neuroscience to create a model that simulates human cochlear mechanics. In their paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, Deepak Baby, Arthur Van Den Broucke and Sarah Verhulst describe how…
