By knitting together multiple components and data streams, multimodal AI offers the promise of smarter, more human-like systems…
From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
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In 1950, Nobel prizewinning physicist Enrico Fermi posed his famous paradox: if extraterrestrial intelligence exists, why haven't we found it?New Scientist From ACM News | December 29, 2014
Ripples in space-time could squeeze and stretch the sun and Jupiter, forming a gigantic gravitational-wave detector in our own celestial backyard.New Scientist From ACM News | December 10, 2014
Feeling is believing. A system that uses sound waves to project "haptic holograms" into mid-air—letting you touch 3D virtual objects with your bare hands—is poised...New Scientist From ACM News | December 5, 2014
They could be the most powerful computers in the world—so perhaps it's no surprise that the biggest internet company on the planet is testing one out.New Scientist From ACM News | December 4, 2014
A "time cloak" that conceals events rather than objects can hide secret messages through a trick of light, making information invisible to all but the intended...New Scientist From ACM News | December 1, 2014
Could a futuristic society of humans with the power to control their own biological functions ever become reality? New Scientist From ACM News | November 13, 2014