On Thursday, the head of the Spanish data protection agency announced that they are currently developing technology for age verification to prohibit access by children to inappropriate content online like gambling or pornography sites. The impact of violent, pornographic,…
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Bereaved Chinese People Use AI to Create Life-like Avatars of their Deceased Loved Ones
Like many other grief-stricken people, bereaved parents Seakoo Wu and his wife have joined the growing horde of Chinese people using artificial intelligence to create avatars of their lost ones. Wu’s ultimate goal is to create a realistic replica of…
Robo-dog Sets New Guinness World Record
HOUND, a novel four-legged robotic dog, recently set a new Guiness World Record for the fastest 100-meter dash by a quadruped robot. Designed by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s (KAIST) Dynamic Robot Control and Design Laboratory, HOUND ran…
AI Avatars Replace Human Anchors in News Channel
Channel 1, a news channel with only Artificial Intelligence avatars as virtual anchors and reporters, will launch in February. A demo episode from the Channel was released on X (formerly Twitter) by the owners. In the released episode, a realistic…
Novel Mind-reading AI Converts Thoughts to Texts
For the first time, a research team at the GrapheneX-UTS Human-centric Artificial Intelligence Centre from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) developed a non-invasive portal system which can decipher thoughts and convert them into text. This technology would be particularly…
Researchers Create Novel Snow Model to Better Understand Climate Change
Researchers from the University of Waterloo recently digitized snow into a advanced model to better understand the impact of climate change. ‘SPLITSnow’ is a ‘light transport’ model which simulates the interaction of light with complex materials. It is a state-of-the-art…
New Tool Defends Against Deepfakes
The emergence of deepfakes －where synthesized speech can be used to mimic machine and human voices for malicious purposes－ is a serious problem in the current world. The advances in generative artificial intelligence were geared towards improving personalized voice assistants.…
Drones With Defibrillators Save Cardiac Arrest Patients
Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet have been studying the concept of drones fitted with Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) for emergency cardiac arrest patients, rather than sending only an ambulance. They discovered that in over 50% of the cases, the drones…
AI as a Tool for Constructing New Bridges and Buildings
Engineers are currently using artificial intelligence to develop lighter concrete blocks for construction in Pennsylvania where about 13% of the bridges have been declared structurally deficient. Artificial intelligence is also being used to develop a highway wall capable of absorbing…
Using Big Data Techniques to Study Social Factors that Affect Child Health
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine recently developed an AI-based method to identify patterns in the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, and age commonly referred to as social determinants of health (SDoH), linking the patterns to the health…