Moravec‘s Paradox

OpenAI's ChatGPT system has sent the topic of artificial intelligence through the roof. But so many professionals across industries, including healthcare, do not truly understand how AI works – especially how the different forms of AI work. Further, there are a variety of acronyms floating around out there in the…

The world emits 51 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year. To solve the climate crisis, we need to cut this in half by 2030, and get to zero by 2050. For electricity generation, this means the United States alone needs to increase renewable-energy capacities by 10…

Technology An artificial intelligence has learned to master an Atari skiing game in days of playing time rather than the decades it took a specialist DeepMind AI, simply by reading the instructions written for humans before it started By Matthew Sparkes 4 March 2023 In the Atari game Skiing, the…

Mechanical systems in which moving parts come into regular contact are prone to damage due to the effects of friction. Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a contact control system, driven by artificial intelligence, to greatly reduce contact with damaged areas. Although currently tested only in lab experiments, they believe…

SHAP analysis of the MPXV-CNN. Photographic images of MPXV skin lesions (top) are shown with the corresponding SHAP analysis (bottom) overlaid on the original image to highlight the discriminative image regions used for detection (a–g). The MPXV lesions shown represent different stages as follows: early-stage vesicle (a), small pustule (b),…

Technology An artificial intelligence has designed new versions of trastuzumab, an antibody treatment against breast cancer, in just a few days – existing methods take weeks or months By Carissa Wong 3 March 2023 A visualisation of HER2-positive breast cancer in mice Cultura Creative RF / Alamy Stock Photo Artificial…

What is art? In recent months, the Supreme Court tackled this issue by wading into a copyright dispute between photographer Lynn Goldsmith and Andy Warhol’s estate over a portrait of Prince. Now the U.S. Copyright Office is jumping into the fray by first granting, and then revoking, the copyright of…

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Forward-looking: With artificial intelligence making huge advancements over the last few months, what's the next step toward humanity's cyberpunk-like dystopian future? According to scientists, it will be human augmentation involving robot parts being attached to…

House hunting on Mars could soon become a thing, and researchers at the University of Arizona are already in the business of scouting real estate that future astronauts could use as habitats. Researchers in the UArizona College of Engineering have developed technology that would allow a flock of robots to…

It's 2023, and generative AI is the hot buzzword of the year. Tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT began bubbling to the surface of popular usage in 2022, and now that we're well into the new year, everyone from Microsoft to Google to Meta is making a hard play at selling…