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.…
Category: Machine Learning, AI
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…
Researchers Study AI Accessibility for People with Disabilities
Researchers at the University of Washington recently conducted a three-month autoethnographic study to test the utility of AI tools for accessibility. They found that although the tools were helpful sometimes, the tools had significant problems when generating images, writing Slack…
Worker Crushed to Death by Industrial Robot
On Thursday, the South Korean police announced that an industrial robot had crushed to death a worker at a vegetable packaging plant. There is an ongoing investigation into the safety or potential defects of the machine. According to the police…
Researchers Discover Security Threats in ChatGPT and Other AI Tools
According to research by the University of Sheffield’s Department of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence tools such as ChatGPT can be fooled into creating malicious code that can be used to launch cyber attacks. This study provides a novel demonstration…
Novel Study Uses Computer Vision to Detect Skin Cancer
Because of its rapid spread, early detection is crucial for treating melanoma. Researchers from John Hopkins are currently studying how computer vision can be used to track skin lesions across multiple scans from different visits by the patient. It is…
Scientists Use AI Model to Study Wildlife
New research is looking into ways artificial intelligence can track animal life in recovering habitats. While it is relatively simple to measure reforestation through surveys with satellite and lidar, it is not so simple to determine how much and how…
First Man to Receive Software Patent Dies at 93
Martin Goetz, a UNIVAC programmer in the 1950s, famous for receiving the first U.S. patent for software, died on the 10th of October at his home in Brighton. Leukemia claimed the programmer’s life at 93. In 1968, Mr Goetz…