Artificial intelligence

23 Nov 23

AI Sharpens Rainfall Estimates from Satellites

Aerospace & Aeronautical

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Weather satellites can track every movement of a storm from orbit. However, the algorithms that analyze satellite readings currently don’t estimate precipitation levels as well as the algorithms that have been fed ground-based radar…

22 Nov 23

What to Do When the Ghost in the Machine Is You

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Limor Fried is the founder of Adafruit, a leading electronics manufacturer for makers. The open-source microcontroller driver libraries she writes to interface with devices such as sensors and displays often become de facto standards and are found in many code repositories. Recently, Fried began experimenting with ChatGPT to generate drivers…

22 Nov 23

Creating Virtual Objects With the Flick of a Finger

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Imagine doing a simple hand gesture, and the object in front of you is manipulated the way you desire. Now this act of creation is possible—in the world of virtual reality (VR).Researchers in the United…

21 Nov 23

These AI agents could cut your workweek to just 3 days

Computer & Information Technology

Most of us would love a break from the 9-to-5 grind, evidenced by the recent hype over the four-day workweek. But a new startup from the UK promises to help you toil even less than that — while remaining just as productive. The company is called Tomoro and it’s on…

14 Nov 23

‘Unsafe’ AI images proliferate online. Study suggests 3 ways to curb the scourge

Computer & Information Technology

Over the past year, AI image generators have taken the world by storm. Heck, even our distinguished writers at TNW use them from time to time. Truth is, tools like Stable Diffusion, Latent Diffusion, or DALL·E can be incredibly useful for producing unique images from simple prompts — like this…

08 Nov 23

Public AI Training Datasets Are Rife With Licensing Errors

Computer & Information Technology

Large language models feed on big data from publicly available training sets, but most of the sets are of doubtful legal status.The scope of the problem has been demonstrated by the newly launched Data Provenance Initiative, which brings together a multi-institutional team of machine-learning and legal experts led by researchers…

07 Nov 23

How Europe is racing to resolve its AI sovereignty woes

Computer & Information Technology

While not yet as illustrious as its North American counterparts OpenAI, Anthropic, or Cohere, Europe’s own cohort of generative AI startups is beginning to crystallise. Just yesterday, news broke that Germany’s Aleph Alpha had raised €460mn, in one of the largest funding rounds ever for a European AI company. The…

03 Nov 23

Musk on how to turn the UK into a ‘unicorn breeding ground’

Computer & Information Technology

If you are generally interested in technology, and are not aware by now of the meeting that took place yesterday between Rishi Sunak and Elon Musk during the UK’s AI Security Summit at Bletchley Park, you have probably been living under a rock. As others have already commented, the session…

29 Oct 23

Generative AI’s Energy Problem Today is Foundational

Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

While the origins of artificial intelligence (AI) can be traced back more than 60 years to the mid-20th century, the explosion of generative AI products—like ChatGPT or Midjourney— in the past two years has brought the technology to a new level of popularity. And that popularity comes at a steep…

24 Oct 23

How this Berlin startup deploys AI to make preventative healthcare accessible

Computer & Information Technology

There are plenty of conversations around how AI can progress healthcare. And indeed, it has numerous applications in the form of diagnostics and accelerated drug discovery. However, wouldn’t it be even better if artificial intelligence could help prevent us from getting sick in the first place? Anyone who has ever…