AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Water is needed for development, production and consumption, yet we are overusing and polluting an unsubstitutable resource and system. Eight safe and just boundaries for five…

Top computer scientists say the future of artificial intelligence is similar to that of Star Trek

A model that could broaden the manipulation skills of four-legged robots

The legged robot ANYmal opens a fridge door using pedipulation. Credit: ETH Zurich. Robotic systems have become increasingly sophisticated over the past decades, evolving from rudimental stiff robots to a…

New survey on deep learning solutions for cellular traffic prediction

Taxonomy of key deep learning techniques for cellular traffic prediction showing methods for temporal and spatial-temporal prediction. Credit: Xing Wang et al. The bustling streets of a modern city are…

AI ethics are ignoring children, say researchers

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on Ethical Web and Data Architectures (EWADA), University of Oxford, have called for a more considered approach when embedding ethical…

What you need to know about audio deepfakes

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Audio deepfakes have had a recent bout of bad press after an AI-generated robocall purporting to be the voice of Joe Biden hit up New Hampshire…

Engineers’ new approach brings images into focus

Credit: Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins researchers have developed an efficient new method to turn blurry images into clear, sharp ones. Called Progressively Deblurring Radiance Field (PDRF), this approach…

Gemini’s flawed AI racial images seen as warning of tech titans’ power

A Google Gemini AI gaffe when it came to creating images on command spotlighted the challenge of eliminating cultural bias in such tech tools without rediculous results. For people at…

AI unlocks new solar energy horizons in China

A system that allows home robots to cook in collaboration with humans

The researchers evaluated their robot on multiple recipes. Credit: Wang et al. Home robots could assist humans with the completion of various chores and manual tasks, ranging from washing dishes…