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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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A Man with Parkinson's Regained the Ability to Walk, Thanks to a Spinal Implant
The implant delivers bursts of electrical signals, stimulating his spinal cord to make his leg muscles move.
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How AI Is Helping Historians Better Understand Our Past
The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago.
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China Has a New Plan for Judging the Safety of Generative AI—and it's Packed with Details
A new proposal spells out the very specific ways companies should evaluate AI security and enforce censorship in AI models.
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These New Tools Could Make AI Vision Systems Less Biased
Two new papers from Sony and Meta describe novel methods to make bias detection fairer.
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Driverless Car Company Using Chatbots to Make Its Vehicles Smarter
U.K.-based driverless car company Wayve has tapped chatbot technology to question its vehicles about their driving decisions.
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These Tools Could Help Protect Our Pictures From AI
However, these tools are neither perfect, nor enough on their own.
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This Startup Engineered a Clever Way to Reuse Waste Heat from Cloud Computing
Heata is now using these busy servers to heat water for homes.
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This Tool could Protect Your Pictures from AI Manipulation
PhotoGuard, created by researchers at MIT, alters photos in ways that are imperceptible to us but stops AI systems from tinkering with them.
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Is the Digital Dollar Dead?
Prominent politicians want to make sure a central bank digital currency never happens in the U.S.—just as we've learned the basics of how one might work.
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Babies Conceived with Sperm-Injecting Robot Have Been Born
Scientists claim the first two babies conceived by a sperm-injecting robot have been born.
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How Rust Went from a Side Project to the World's Most-Loved Programming Language
For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.
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Why You Shouldn't Trust AI Search Engines
The technology is simply not ready to be used like this at this scale.
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What's Next for the Chip Industry
Aggressive new U.S. policies will be put to the test in 2023. They could ultimately fragment the global semiconductor industry.
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