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Tesla’s Optimus robot isn’t very impressive – but it may be a sign of better things to come
Tesla Wafa Johal, The University of Melbourne In August 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the electric car…
Irony machine: why are AI researchers teaching computers to recognise irony?
shutterstock thinking robot. Charles Barbour, Western Sydney University What was your first reaction when you heard about Blake…
Digital doubles: In the future, virtual versions of ourselves could predict our behaviour
The data we generate online and using apps could be used to inform a digital version of ourselves.…
Google’s powerful AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch: Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought
Words can have a powerful effect on people, even when they’re generated by an unthinking machine. iStock via…
We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here’s what it revealed about sentience
Shakespeare AI. iku4 Alex Connock, University of Oxford and Professor Andrew Stephen, University of Oxford Nay, nay, I…
Listening to asthma and COPD: An AI-powered wearable could monitor respiratory health
Even with optimal treatment, asthma and COPD patients encounter unpredictable flareups of their conditions, which can become life-threatening…
A celebrated AI has learned a new trick: How to do chemistry
Figuring out what makes some proteins glow requires an understanding of chemistry. eLife – the journal, CC BY-SA…
Better AI, unhackable communication, spotting submarines: the quantum tech arms race is heating up
Zhu Jin Stuart Rollo, University of Sydney Quantum technology, which makes use of the surprising and often counterintuitive…
Using artificial intelligence in health sciences education requires interdisciplinary collaboration and risk assessment
Health sciences education needs to be updated to include training in technology. (Shutterstock) Elif Bilgic, McMaster University and…
Are Analog Computers Making a Comeback?
Derek Muller continues his series on his YouTube channel Veritasium about analog computers, and posits a unique question:…