How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption
From automatically generated overviews to chatbots in spreadsheets, so-called artificial intelligence is increasingly being integrated...
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AI predicts complex social group behavior using individual attributes
Professor Kijung Shin's research team at the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI has developed...
AI headphones automatically learn who you’re talking to—and let you hear them better
Holding a conversation in a crowded room often leads to the frustrating "cocktail party problem,"...
AI training method slashes pre-training time by 50% while boosting accuracy
A much faster, more efficient training method developed at the University of Waterloo could help...
AI-powered robotic dog sees, remembers and responds with human-like precision in search-and-rescue missions
Meet the robotic dog with a memory like an elephant and the instincts of a...
Infant-inspired framework helps robots learn to interact with objects
Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of advanced systems that can...
EU launches antitrust probe into Google’s data use for AI
The EU announced Tuesday it had opened a probe to assess whether Google breached antitrust...
A softer image of AI? Google-backed film aims to change the narrative
A man mourns the loss of his dead celebrity mom, who unexpectedly appears before him...
AI is perpetuating unrealistic body ideals, objectification and a lack of diversity—especially for athletes
What does it look like to have an "athletic body?" What does artificial intelligence think...
Speech-to-reality system creates objects on demand using AI and robotics
Generative AI and robotics are moving us ever closer to the day when we can...
Can AI read humans’ minds? A pedestrian behavior model is shockingly good at it
In a striking leap toward safer self-driving cars, researchers at Texas A&M University College of...
Aging bridges are crumbling. Here’s how new technologies can help detect danger earlier
New signs of deterioration recently discovered on the Île-aux-Tourtes Bridge in Montréal have spurred the...
Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism
As OpenAI marks its tenth birthday in December 2025, it can celebrate becoming one of...
A safety report card ranks AI company efforts to protect humanity
Are artificial intelligence companies keeping humanity safe from AI's potential harms? Don't bet on it,...
Number’s up: Calculators hold out against AI
The humble pocket calculator may not be able to keep up with the mathematical capabilities...
Overparameterized neural networks: Feature learning precedes overfitting, research finds
Modern neural networks, with billions of parameters, are so overparameterized that they can "overfit" even...
A smarter way for large language models to think about hard problems
To make large language models (LLMs) more accurate when answering harder questions, researchers can let...
Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity AI for copyright infringement
On Dec. 4, the Chicago Tribune filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in New York federal...
Softbank’s Son says super AI could make humans like fish, win Nobel Prize
SoftBank CEO and AI investor Masayoshi Son said Friday that advanced artificial intelligence could surpass...
OpenAI strikes deal on US$4.6 bn AI center in Australia
ChatGPT maker OpenAI and an Australian data center operator have agreed to develop a multibillion-dollar...
Algorithm offers faster, more reliable control over language model outputs
A paper co-authored by Prof. Alex Lew has been selected as one of four "Outstanding...
How Greek myths and Hollywood hits can help us understand AI today
Nina Beguš remembers being at an event 10 years ago where a group of engineers...
Making simulations more accurate than ever with deep learning
Future events such as the weather or satellite trajectories are computed in tiny time steps,...
Using food to uncover AI’s cultural blind spots
CISPA researcher Tejumade Àfọ̀njá has co-authored a new international study that uses food as a...