https://techxplore.com/machine-learning-ai-news/ en-us The latest news on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning In a new study, deepfake video clips of movie remakes that don't actually exist prompted participants to falsely remember the films—but simple text descriptions of the fake movies prompted similar false memory rates. Gillian Murphy of University College Cork, Ireland, and Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, and colleagues presented these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-deepfake-videos-prompt-false-memories.html Consumer & Gadgets Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:52:03 EDT news608471521 How does the human brain navigate complex circumstances—say, driving through Harvard Square traffic at 5 p.m.? https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-algorithms-ai-human-like-scientists-fmri.html Computer Sciences Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:42:01 EDT news608463716 Until recently, 3D surface reconstruction has been a relatively slow, painstaking process involving significant trial and error and manual input. But what if you could take a video of an object or scene with your smartphone and turn it into an accurate, detailed model, the way a master sculptor creates masterpieces from marble or clay? Its creators claim that the aptly named Neuralangelo does just that through the power of neural networks—and with submillimeter accuracy. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-neuralangelo-unleashing-digital-michelangelo-smartphone.html Computer Sciences Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:35:29 EDT news608463322 Filmmakers may soon be able to stabilize shaky video, change viewpoints and create freeze-frame, zoom and slow-motion effects—without shooting any new footage—thanks to an algorithm developed by researchers at Cornell University and Google Research. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-software-views-video.html Software Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:34:03 EDT news608463241 Designing reliable aircraft can be both challenging and time-consuming, as it often entails several steps and analyses. Deep learning models could potentially help to speed up aircraft design and deployment, helping developers to identify the most promising solutions or potential flaws with a specific aircraft. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-large-dataset-machine-aerial-vehicle.html Automotive Mon, 10 Jul 2023 12:24:05 EDT news608210640 Setting its sights on evolving graphics processing units in a growing universe of generative AI, Intel announced the release of several papers outlining efforts it is pursuing in what observers say is a multibillion-dollar opportunity in coming years for the semiconductor chip giant. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-intel-high-rendering-graphics-low-power-gpus.html Computer Sciences Mon, 10 Jul 2023 10:30:01 EDT news608203501 Reservoir computing is a promising computational framework based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which essentially maps input data onto a high-dimensional computational space, keeping some parameters of artificial neural networks (ANNs) fixed while updating others. This framework could help to improve the performance of machine learning algorithms, while also reducing the amount of data required to adequately train them. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-neural-machine-code-reservoir.html Computer Sciences Fri, 07 Jul 2023 09:29:08 EDT news607940943 Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed new software to aid in the development, evaluation and demonstration of safer autonomous, or driverless, vehicles. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-real-driverless-cars-virtual-environment.html Automotive Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:26:33 EDT news607872382 A team led by Nagoya University researchers in Japan has successfully predicted crystal orientation by teaching artificial intelligence (AI) using optical photographs of polycrystalline materials. The results were published in APL Machine Learning. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-ai-based-technique-crystal-efficiency-electronic.html Engineering Thu, 06 Jul 2023 10:41:17 EDT news607858871 Artificial intelligence (AI) can help people shop, plan, and write—but not cook. It turns out humans aren't the only ones who have a hard time following step-by-step recipes in the correct order, but new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing could change that. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-chef-dataset-ai-cooking.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 05 Jul 2023 16:49:02 EDT news607794538 New research from the University of Montana and its partners suggests artificial intelligence can match the top 1% of human thinkers on a standard test for creativity. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-ai-creative.html Computer Sciences Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:40:02 EDT news607790397 A Stanford team has developed Sophia, a new way to optimize the pretraining of large language models that's twice as fast as current approaches. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-team-faster-cheaper-large-language.html Hi Tech & Innovation Mon, 03 Jul 2023 11:57:42 EDT news607604257 A study of the soaring use of artificial intelligence in software creation says we are in the midst of "a sea change" in program development that will ultimately boost local global gross domestic product by $1.5 trillion by 2030. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-github-copilot-global-trillion-gdp.html Business Fri, 30 Jun 2023 13:53:01 EDT news607351978 Chart captions that explain complex trends and patterns are important for improving a reader's ability to comprehend and retain the data being presented. For people with visual disabilities, the information in a caption often provides their only means of understanding the chart. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ai-captions.html Computer Sciences Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:57:22 EDT news607273037 The brain comprises billions of interconnected neurons that transmit and process information and allow it to act as a highly sophisticated information processing system. To make it as efficient as possible, the brain develops multiple modules tasked with different functions, like perception and body control. Within a single area, neurons form multiple clusters and function as modules—an important trait that has remained essentially unchanged throughout evolution. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-artificially-cultured-brains-series.html Engineering Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:10:06 EDT news607252201 Stroke is the most important cause of disability for adults in the EU, which affects approximately 1.1 million inhabitants each year. After a stroke, patients commonly need rehabilitation to relearn to walk, talk, or perform daily tasks. Research has shown that besides physical and occupational therapy, music therapy can help stroke patients to recover language and motor function. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-soft-robo-glove-patients-relearn-play.html Robotics Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:10:01 EDT news607179908 A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Zurich has delved into the capabilities of AI models, specifically focusing on OpenAI's GPT-3, to determine their potential risks and benefits in generating and disseminating (dis)information. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-gpt-disinforms-humans.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:47:03 EDT news607189621 Why is it that artificial intelligence systems can outperform humans on some visual tasks, like facial recognition, but make egregious errors on others—such as classifying an image of an astronaut as a shovel? https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-tool-ai-images-astronaut-shovel.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 28 Jun 2023 14:26:05 EDT news607181161 Imagine strapping on a virtual reality headset and "walking" through a long-gone neighborhood in your city—seeing the streets and buildings as they appeared decades ago. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-3d-digital-lost-neighborhoods.html Hi Tech & Innovation Wed, 28 Jun 2023 14:00:03 EDT news607166220 Language models like ChatGPT are making headlines for their impressive ability to "think" and communicate like humans do. Their feat of achievements so far includes answering questions, summarizing text, and even engaging in emotionally intelligent conversation. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-chatbots-funny-rationally.html Computer Sciences Wed, 28 Jun 2023 13:25:06 EDT news607177502 Vision depends on light entering the eyes through the transparent tissues of the cornea, pupil and lens. When the light reaches the retina, photoreceptors produce signals and transmit them via the optical nerve to the brain, where an image is formed. Some of that light entering the eye is reflected back into the world by a highly reflective thin film of fluid covering the cornea. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-three-dimensional-images-eye-nerf.html Hi Tech & Innovation Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:00:05 EDT news607081507 An unknown admirer of felines once remarked, "Cats and computers both have one thing in common—they both rule the Internet." https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-deepmind-unveils-self-training-robocat.html Robotics Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:10:01 EDT news607014372 A theoretical proof shows that a technique called overparametrization enhances performance in quantum machine learning for applications that stymie classical computers. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-theory-overparametrization-quantum-neural-networks.html Computer Sciences Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:11:43 EDT news607003898 Generative AI programs can generate images from textual prompts. These models work best when they generate images of single objects. Creating complete scenes is still difficult. Michael Ying Yang, a UT-researcher from the faculty of ITC recently developed a novel method that can graph scenes from images that can serve as a blueprint for generating realistic and coherent images. He and his team recently published their findings in the journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ai-method-graphing-scenes-images.html Machine learning & AI Mon, 26 Jun 2023 12:15:02 EDT news607000501 In the space of a few months generative AI models, such as ChatGPT, Google's Bard and Midjourney, have been adopted by more and more people in a variety of professional and personal ways. But growing research is underlining that they are encoding biases and negative stereotypes in their users, as well as mass generating and spreading seemingly accurate but nonsensical information. Worryingly, marginalized groups are disproportionately affected by the fabrication of this nonsensical information. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-generative-ai-encoding-biases-negative.html Consumer & Gadgets Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:00:02 EDT news606645973 At the turn of this century, Jeff Bezos popularized the use of mechanical turks—low-paid workers working remotely with perhaps thousands of others on tiny parts of larger computer projects—to ensure a human perspective on mostly simple tasks that proved perplexing to computers. He termed this blending of human and digital brain power "artificial artificial intelligence." https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ai-contaminates-vital-human.html Machine learning & AI Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:33:20 EDT news606497592 New work from Carnegie Mellon University has enabled robots to learn household chores by watching videos of people performing everyday tasks in their homes. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ability-robots-videos.html Robotics Tue, 20 Jun 2023 08:59:40 EDT news606470368 Every day, tens of thousands of songs are released. This constant stream of options makes it difficult for streaming services and radio stations to choose which songs to add to playlists. To find the ones that will resonate with a large audience, these services have used human listeners and artificial intelligence. This approach, however, lingering at a 50% accuracy rate, does not reliably predict if songs will become hits. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-machine-songs-accuracy.html Hi Tech & Innovation Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:01 EDT news606383626 Large language models are generating verbal pollution that threatens to undermine the very data such models are trained on. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ai-death-spiral.html Computer Sciences Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:31:40 EDT news606411094 AI-powered robots have become increasingly sophisticated and are gradually being introduced in a wide range of real-world settings, including malls, airports, hospitals and other public spaces. In the future, these robots could also assist humans with house chores, office errands and other tedious or time-consuming tasks. https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-multisensory-simulation-platform-home-robots.html Robotics Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:10:01 EDT news606128079