AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilisations

AI may be destroying civilisations before they get a chance to explore space properly.

Michael Garrett, Sir Bernard Lovell chair of Astrophysics and Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester • conversation
May 8, 2024 ~7 min

OpenAI’s content deal with the FT is an attempt to avoid more legal challenges – and an AI ‘data apocalypse’

The tech company has been seeking to licence content from a variety of media companies.

Mike Cook, Senior Lecturer, Department of Informatics, King's College London • conversation
May 8, 2024 ~7 min


How to spot fake online reviews (with a little help from AI)

Unravelling authenticity in the digital age.

Nick Jennings, Vice-Chancellor and President, Loughborough University • conversation
May 2, 2024 ~6 min

What to expect from the next generation of chatbots: OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Meta’s Llama-3

The upgraded AI systems may even be able to undertake a form of reasoning.

Abdul Sadka, Professor and Director of Aston Digital Futures Institute, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Aston University • conversation
May 2, 2024 ~7 min

Natural language boosts LLM performance in coding, planning, and robotics

Three neurosymbolic methods help language models find better abstractions within natural language, then use those representations to execute complex tasks.

Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL • mit
May 1, 2024 ~13 min

AI-powered ‘deep medicine’ could transform healthcare in the NHS and reconnect staff with their patients

The concept of deep medicine would use AI to free up staff, benefiting patient care.

Will Jones, Director of Research and Lecturer in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Modelling (DAIM), University of Hull • conversation
April 24, 2024 ~7 min

Mapping the brain pathways of visual memorability

For the first time, researchers use a combination of MEG and fMRI to map the spatio-temporal human brain dynamics of a visual image being recognized.

Rachel Gordon | MIT CSAIL • mit
April 23, 2024 ~6 min

This tiny chip can safeguard user data while enabling efficient computing on a smartphone

Researchers have developed a security solution for power-hungry AI models that offers protection against two common attacks.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
April 23, 2024 ~8 min


Clothing Industry Wonders about Effect of AI on Models

VOA Learning English • voa
April 19, 2024 ~7 min

Are tomorrow’s engineers ready to face AI’s ethical challenges?

Ethics is often neglected in engineering education, two researchers write, despite mounting questions about how to responsibly design artificial intelligence programs.

Erin A. Cech, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan • conversation
April 19, 2024 ~9 min

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