Generative ai

Asimov’s Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI

January 14, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot.First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come…

December 12, 2024
Computer & Information Technology

Stanford University professor Fei-Fei Li has already earned her place in the history of AI. She played a major role in the deep learning revolution by laboring for years to create the ImageNet dataset and competition, which challenged AI systems to recognize objects and animals across 1,000 categories. In 2012,…

November 19, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Machine learning chips that use analog circuits instead of digital ones have long promised huge energy savings. But in practice they’ve mostly delivered modest savings, and only for modest-sized neural networks. Silicon Valley startup Sageance says it has the technology to bring the promised power savings to tasks suited for…

November 12, 2024
Computer & Information Technology

Generative AI is now increasingly used to synthesize images, video, text and code. Now Amazon says it will invest US $110 million in university-led research into generative AI to help drive breakthroughs in the field, the company announced.Generative AI systems such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion now regularly conjure…

November 4, 2024
Computer & Information Technology

Private investment in generative AI has grown from about US $3 billion in 2022 to $25 billion in 2023, and about 80 percent of private companies expect AI to drive their business in the next 3 years, according to Deloitte. Keeping up with the latest advancements means upgrading GPUs, CPUs,…

August 31, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Most people assume that generative AI will keep getting better and better; after all, that’s been the trend so far. And it may do so. But what some people don’t realize is that generative AI models are only as good as the ginormous data sets they’re trained on, and those…

June 13, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

Last month when Google introduced its new AI search tool, called AI Overviews, the company seemed confident that it had tested the tool sufficiently, noting in the announcement that “people have already used AI Overviews billions of times through our experiment in Search Labs.” The tool doesn’t just return links…

June 3, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Microsoft recently caught state-backed hackers using its generative AI tools to help with their attacks. In the security community, the immediate questions weren’t about how hackers were using the tools (that was utterly predictable), but about how Microsoft figured it out. The natural conclusion was that Microsoft was spying on…

May 2, 2024
Computer & Information Technology

Generative AI is transforming the software development industry. AI-powered coding tools are assisting programmers in their workflows, while jobs in AI continue to increase. But the shift is also evident in academia—one of the major avenues through which the next generation of software engineers learn how to code.Computer science students…

09 Apr 24

AI Coding Is Going From Copilot to Autopilot

Computer & Information Technology

A new breed of AI-powered coding tools have emerged—and they’re claiming to be more autonomous versions of earlier assistants like GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Tabnine.One such new entrant, Devin AI has been dubbed an “AI software engineer” by its maker, applied AI lab Cognition. According to Cognition, Devin can…

Asimov’s Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI

AI Godmother Fei-Fei Li Has a Vision for Computer Vision

Analog AI Startup Aims to Lower Gen AI’s Power Needs

Amazon Puts $110M Into Academic Generative AI Research

Generative AI Has a Massive E-Waste Problem

AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling

Is AI Search a Medical Misinformation Disaster?

How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing

AI Copilots Are Changing How Coding Is Taught

AI Coding Is Going From Copilot to Autopilot

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law