This drone can perch on nearly anything Arizona State University An inflatable drone can perch on many different objects by colliding with them – taking advantage of its soft-body floppiness to increase the time spent in contact with the landing target and to avoid bouncing off. This approach loosely mimics …
Read More »AI-designed protein shells could make vaccines more effective
Protein shells designed using AI had no imperfections Shutterstock/Sergei Drozd AI can design extremely dense protein shells that could one day lead to more potent vaccines. The genetic material of viruses is housed in protein shells. Similar shells made in the lab are used in vaccines, encapsulating molecules that induce …
Read More »ChatGPT agents are better at simulated roleplay than humans
AI agents successfully organised a Valentine’s Day party in this simulation Stanford University ChatGPT-powered AIs given long-term memory capabilities and personal motivations could role-play characters in a simulated town more believably than human crowd workers. “This idea of creating believable agents that actually exhibit this behaviour – that give the …
Read More »Welcome to Your AI Future! New AI film uses Midjourney to explore ethics of AI
Welcome to Your AI Future! is an unsettlingly surreal short film, set in a future in which the world has been destroyed, but one human has been found by an apparently well-meaning artificial intelligence, which is keen to help – to the best of its ability. Topics: Source link
Read More »Google robot learns to sort the recyclables left in office waste bins
Waste-sorting robots that have been learning their job while wandering through Google offices can now effectively sort items in bins into recycling, compost and rubbish. One way of teaching machines to perform tasks is by reinforcement learning, in which a robot is told what a successful outcome looks like and …
Read More »New study further narrows the search for elusive pairs of monster black holes
Illustration of a supermassive black hole binary. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble Although astrophysicists have never sensed supermassive black hole binary systems, a galaxy-sized detector composed of dead stars is hot on their trail. In a new Northwestern University-led study, astrophysicists crunched 12.5 years of data from 45 …
Read More »Sci fi author Lavie Tidhar: Using Midjourney to explore ethics of AI
Award-winning science fiction author Lavie Tidhar is a busy man. Between his own writing and editing projects, including The Best of World SF anthologies, he works with animator Nir Yaniv on sci-fi film series via their company Positronish, including Mars Machines, about “a toaster and a coffee pot on Mars”, …
Read More »Couples collide with fewer people on walks than pairs of friends do
Couples are less likely to physically collide with others than friends are Shutterstock/Shawn.ccf Couples are less likely to physically bump into other people when walking in busy public spaces than pairs of acquaintances or work colleagues are. However, adding a child into the mix makes the group more likely to …
Read More »Watermarking tool to prevent AI image editing can easily be thwarted
Artificial intelligences can generate and modify images A proposed digital watermark to prevent artificial intelligence (AI) models from altering real photographs can be thwarted simply by saving the image as a JPEG file, say researchers, suggesting that managing the rise of photorealistic deepfakes will be harder than initially thought. While …
Read More »Tools to spot AI essays show bias against non-native English speakers
Working out who has produced work isn’t always an easy matter Tony Tallec/Alamy Tools to detect if a body of English text has been written by humans or artificial intelligence exhibit bias against people whose primary language isn’t English. The tests frequently misidentify their work as being created by an …
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