Summary: Classical and operant conditioning compete in the brain, preventing simultaneous learning of conflicting actions. Using fruit flies, researchers demonstrated that attempting to teach both types of learning simultaneously results…
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Sport produces mountains of high-tech waste—researchers are finding new ways to recycle it
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In the early days of the modern Olympics and Paralympics, athletes competed using heavy, non-aerodynamic equipment. The record for throwing a javelin, for instance, has almost…
A comprehensive survey of federated transfer learning: Challenges, methods and applications
The challenges of FTL. Credit: Wei Guo, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xiao Zhang, Yiqi Tong, Jin Dong Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant attention as a novel distributed machine learning paradigm that…
AI and robots pose new ethical challenges for society
The first book to focus on law, policy, and regulation in human-robot interaction is now available online. Credit: Used with permission from Cambridge University Press, 2024 Artificial intelligence (AI) and…
Montenegro to extradite crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon to US
Do Kwon’s ‘stable coin’ cryptocurrency TerraUSD was not stable in the end, wiping out about $40 billion of investors’ money and shaking global crypto markets. Montenegro said Friday it will…
OpenAI outlines plans to becoming for-profit company
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain ChatGPT-maker OpenAI laid out plans Friday for a new corporate structure shifting away from control by a non-profit—an issue of contention for the artificial intelligence trailblazer.…
Hummingbird-inspired wings detect wind direction with 99% accuracy
Biomimetic flapping-wing aerial robots in hover can accurately detect wind direction using wing strain sensing. Credit: Institute of Science Tokyo Bio-inspired wind sensing using strain sensors on flexible wings could…
Chinese cars grab Mexican market share
A Chinese-made Haval H6 SUV is seen on Reforma Avenue in Mexico City. The growing popularity of Chinese sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks has shaken up Mexico’s luxury car…
