Credit: Tara Winstead from Pexels A fake video of a Bollywood actor purporting to show her wearing a low-cut top has triggered calls for AI regulation in India, where past…
Tag: Machine learning & AI
Powered by AI, new system makes human-to-robot communication more seamless
The new software system, called Lang2LTL, marks an important contribution toward more seamless communications between humans and robots. Photo by Juan Siliezar The black and yellow robot, meant to resemble…
Musk teases AI chatbot ‘Grok,’ with real-time access to X
Tech tycoon Elon Musk says his new AI chatbot Grok will be initially released to the top tier of subscribers on X. Elon Musk on Saturday unveiled details of his…
How Canadian companies can use tech to identify forced labor in their supply chains
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Levi Strauss Canada is yet another company facing allegations of forced labor in its supply chain. The allegations, which Levi Strauss denies, center on whether the…
Using language to give robots a better grasp of an open-ended world
Feature Fields for Robotic Manipulation (F3RM) enables robots to interpret open-ended text prompts using natural language, helping the machines manipulate unfamiliar objects. The system’s 3D feature fields could be helpful…
UK, US, China sign AI safety pledge at UK summit
Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak convened the first ever global summit on AI safety. Countries including the UK, United States and China on Wednesday agreed the “need for international action”…
New tool automates the formal verification of systems software
Tang Family Assistant Professor of Computer Science Rongui Gu (left) and Professor of Computer Science Jason Nieh (right). Credit: Columbia Engineering Formal systems verification, which mathematically proves that code is…
Accelerating AI tasks while preserving data security
SecureLoop is an MIT-developed search engine that can identify an optimal design for a deep neural network accelerator that preserves data security while improving energy efficiency and boosting performance. This…
New index rates transparency of ten foundation model companies, and finds them lacking
Credit: Stanford University Companies in the foundation model space are becoming less transparent, says Rishi Bommasani, Society Lead at the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM), within Stanford HAI.…
New concerns emerge from their use around the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Credit: Markus Winkler from Pexels Visitors to a Ukrainian news website on the evening of February 18 2022, were greeted by a familiar sight, a video of their president giving…
