Cognitive neuroscientists at MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research have shown that people can perform logical reasoning tasks even with severely impaired language abilities, challenging the long…
Microsoft, Amazon and Google's collective carbon emissions rose nearly 20% to 119 million metric tonnes in the past year, driven by datacentre construction for AI, reaching about a third of France's e…
Scientists at University College London and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne found that giving real-time success feedback during motor tasks significantly improves human-machine interface cont…
Tripadvisor's AI-generated hotel review summaries downplay serious complaints including food poisoning, sexual harassment, and hygiene issues, according to an investigation by Which?. The AI described…
Tripadvisor's AI summarization tool is glossing over serious complaints in hotel reviews, including mass food poisoning and sexual harassment, according to a Which? investigation. The AI described a C…
Researchers from University College London and Loughborough University analyzed 58,881 social media posts about fitness apps and found that rigid calorie counting and exercise targets induce shame, ir…
Altus Schools, a San Diego charter network, spent $500,000 on two Ameca humanoid robots from Engineered Arts, integrating them with ChatGPT to serve as teaching assistants for struggling students. Cri…
Altus Schools, a San Diego charter school network, spent $500,000 on two ChatGPT-powered humanoid robots named Ameca for a pilot program exploring AI in education, despite experts warning of safety ri…
Altus Schools in San Diego spent $500,000 on two AI-powered humanoid robots named Ameca for a pilot program exploring AI in education. Critics argue there is no evidence these tools are effective or s…
A new benchmark called HelpBench reveals that large language models provide solid security advice for common threats but fail on hard cases, according to researchers at University College London and G…
Altus Schools, a San Diego-area charter chain, purchased two Ameca humanoid robots from Engineered Arts for $500,000, deploying one at Altus Charter School of San Diego as an instructional aide. The r…
Altus Schools, a charter network, spent $500,000 on ChatGPT-powered humanoid robots for a pilot program aimed at engaging students, but researchers warn the technology may be ineffective or harmful. M…
AI voice clones are up to 20% more intelligible than real human voices in noisy environments, according to a study published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Researchers at Univers…
The UK government plans to use AI facial age estimation on asylum seekers starting next year, despite internal reports showing the technology misidentifies children as adults and has racial bias, part…
A 15-country poll of 18,000 people by Public First found that public perception of AI dominance has shifted toward China over the US in 11 countries, with respondents in France, the UK, and Canada vie…
A new survey of 6,000 digital workers by Glean's Work AI Institute found that employees lose an average of 6.4 hours per week "botsitting"—feeding context, supervising outputs, and debugging AI tools—…
Harvard University will confer five honorary degrees during its 375th Commencement ceremony on Thursday, recognizing recipients for their lifetime contributions and transformative achievements. The ho…