Moravec‘s Paradox

Who do children prefer to learn from? Previous research has shown that even infants can identify the best informant. But would preschoolers prefer learning from a competent robot over an incompetent human? According to a new paper by Concordia researchers published in the Journal of Cognition and Development, the answer…

When seemingly disparate fields, industries, and ways of thinking merge, a convergence happens, which, has the power to build more intuitive and advanced futures for both organizations and the everyday consumer, says Accenture communications, media and technology industry group chair, Kathleen O’Reilly and Daniela Rus, Director of the MIT Computer Science…

You are here: Home/ News/ Nvidia’s CTO Skeptical Of Crypto’s Value, Believes AI Is The Future March 28, 2023 by Ammar Raza US chip-maker Nvidia’s chief technology officer, Michael Kagan, has expressed skepticism about the benefits of cryptocurrencies. In a recent interview, Kagan stated that digital currencies do not “bring…

SUBSCRIBE: Apple | Spotify This is the last part of a three-part Science, Quickly Fascination. Listen to Episode One. Listen to Episode Two. Transcript Allison Parshall: So a few months ago I was at a dinner party with some friends from college. A friend of a friend mentioned that she’s now an editor at a…

Author of the article: Published Mar 26, 2023  •  1 minute read Microsoft Corp has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they do not stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products, Bloomberg News…

Home News Search For Life A new machine-learning model could help scientists hone in on the best potential life-hosting environments on Mars — photographed here by NASA's Perseverance rover —and other alien worlds. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS) A newly developed machine-learning tool could help scientists search for signs of life on…

Zijiao Chen can read your mind, with a little help from powerful artificial intelligence and an fMRI machine. Chen, a doctoral student at the National University of Singapore, is part of a team of researchers that has shown they can decode human brain scans to tell what a person is…

Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in late November, technology companies including Microsoft and Google have been racing to offer new artificial intelligence tools and capabilities. But where is that race leading?  Historian Yuval Hararia—author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, and Unstoppable Us—believes that when it comes to “deploying humanity’s most consequential technology,”…

Levi’s is partnering with an AI company on computer-generated fashion models to “supplement human models.” The company frames the move as part of a “digital transformation journey” of diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability. Although that sounds noble on the surface, Levi’s is essentially hiring a robot to generate the appearance…

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Robotics Summit & Expo: 10–11 May 2023, BOSTONICRA 2023: 29…