A Japanese cafe in Tokyo is making waves by hiring paralyzed individuals to control robot servers. The unique concept is giving disabled people the opportunity to earn wages and interact with others through the use of robots. The pilot scheme, which is…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made remarkable progress in recent years in the production of lifelike images of faces and bodies. However, hands still pose a significant challenge for AI image generators, due to their complex anatomy and motion, scarcity of real-world data,…
Big Tech companies are racing to market with their cutting-edge AI technologies, but some AI ethicists are concerned that this could expose billions of people to potential harms before trust and safety experts have had a chance to study the risks. In…
A painting previously attributed to an unknown artist has been identified as a Raphael masterpiece using facial recognition technology. A team from the University of Nottingham and University of Bradford used the technology to examine the painting, known as the de Brécy…
Scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have created a robot that can shift between solid and liquid states, and has been filmed escaping from a miniature jail cell. The team, led by Dr Chengfeng Pan, has been inspired by sea…
A recent study has put ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI, to the test by using questions from the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). The results of the study, which have been published on the preprint server medRxiv,…
Boston Dynamics is a leading robotics company that designs, develops, and manufactures advanced robots for various industries and applications. The company was founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has since grown to become one…
Microsoft has announced that it is making a “multiyear, multibillion dollar investment” in OpenAI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup. This is the third stage of a partnership between the two companies that began with a $1 billion investment by Microsoft in…
Former IndyCar driver Sam Schmidt has made a remarkable comeback to the racing scene, thanks to a groundbreaking partnership between McLaren and American electronics company Arrow. The partnership has resulted in the development of the Semi-Autonomous Mobility (SAM) Car, which allows Schmidt,…
Ammaar Reshi, a 28-year-old design manager at a California fintech company, has used AI tools to write and illustrate a children’s book that he had always wanted to make for a friend’s daughter. He used ChatGPT and Midjourney to generate drafts of…