A new technique could be used by hackers to trick autonomous cars into ignoring stop signs or prevent surveillance cameras from spotting a suspect.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 4, 2017
If there are advanced alien civilizations in the Milky Way, we ought to be thinking about how to say hello to our neighbours.
New Scientist From ACM News | July 21, 2017
"I can't define obscenity, but I know it when I see it." US Justice Potter Stewart's famous turn of phrase could also be an apt description of the Turing test,...New Scientist From ACM News | July 18, 2017
A neural network trained on poetry has attempted to write its own lines; ts best efforts can convince people they are reading the words of a human poet.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 12, 2017
Need to send a message across interstellar space? Use the sun for a signal boost. A new proposal suggests that the sun's gravity could be used to amplify signals...New Scientist From ACM News | July 10, 2017
Oi, AI—What do you think you're looking at? Understanding why machine learning algorithms can be tricked into seeing things that aren't there is becoming more important...New Scientist From ACM News | July 7, 2017
Researchers have modified a generative adversarial network to create an artificial intelligence program that produces images in unconventional styles.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 5, 2017
An artificial iris can open and close in response to sunlight without any other outside control, just like the ones in your eyes.
New Scientist From ACM News | June 27, 2017
AI systems continue to get increasingly powerful, but still need far too much hand-holding by their human masters. New research from DeepMind and OpenAI suggests...New Scientist From ACM News | June 19, 2017
Researchers say they have created a virtual reality headset and jacket system that enables operators to control a drone using only their body movement.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 14, 2017
Researchers say they have developed a vocalization synthesizer that generates biologically fitting sounds for land mammals of any size.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 9, 2017
University of California, Berkeley researchers are developing an artificial intelligence system that seeks and accepts human oversight.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 8, 2017
There is a 50% chance that machines will outperform humans in all tasks within 45 years, according to a survey of 352 artificial intelligence (AI) researchers conducted...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 5, 2017
Researchers have conceived of a nanoscale refrigerator to maintain temperatures cold enough to keep qubits functioning in a quantum computer.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 11, 2017
Researchers say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that has learned to ask questions of its own.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 10, 2017
The progress made in training algorithms to recognize images via the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge has prompted its 2018 replacement with the...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 10, 2017
Researchers are working to help computers understand human behavior by feeding them videos and images of computer-generated bodies in motion
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 5, 2017