Researcher designs robot to help children cross streets safely

by Kristin J. Bender, The Orange County Register Hovannes Kulhandjian, an associate professor in electrical and computer engineering at Cal State Fresno, who also works with the Mineta Transportation Institute…

California partners with Nvidia to bring artificial intelligence resources to colleges

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain California is partnering with tech giant Nvidia to help train the state’s students, college faculty, developers and data scientists in artificial intelligence, officials announced Friday. The…

OpenAI worries its AI voice may charm users

Actors Scarlett Johansson (R) and Joaquin Phoenix starred in the 2013 fiction film ‘Her’, in which a man falls in love with a human sounding AI assistant. OpenAI says it…

Researchers expose vulnerability of speech emotion recognition models to adversarial attacks

A new algorithm to help robots practice skills independently to adapt to unfamiliar environments

A new algorithm developed by researchers at MIT CSAIL helps robots practice skills on their own. In experiments, it guided a quadruped with sweeping and placing various items. Credits: Alex…

Experts warn of AI-powered autonomous weapon risks

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For decades, the military has used autonomous weapons such as mines, torpedoes, and heat-guided missiles that operate based on simple reactive feedback without human control. However,…

New platform expedites material development for next-gen tech

Meta just launched the largest ‘open’ AI model in history—here’s why it matters

Credit: Julio Lopez from Pexels In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), a battle is underway. On one side are companies that believe in keeping the datasets and algorithms behind…

Phantom data could show copyright holders if their work is in AI training data

Credit: Google DeepMind from Pexels Inspired by the map makers of the 20th Century, Imperial researchers have demonstrated a new way to identify copyright holders’ work in LLMs. The technique…

OpenAI to challenge Google with new search functionality

OpenAI says that it will weave what it learns from its ‘SearchGPT’ prototype into ChatGPT to add online search capabilities. OpenAI on Thursday said it was putting its artificial intelligence…