Archive for the ‘robotics/AI’ category: Page 1875
Aug 10, 2018
Microsoft’s AI can convert images into Chinese poetry
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Microsoft researchers recently unveiled a new ability for XiaoIce: it’s a Chinese language poet that’s inspired by images.
Aug 10, 2018
DeepLocker demonstrates how AI can create a new breed of malware
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cybercrime/malcode, robotics/AI
According to Marc Ph. Stoecklin, principal research scientist at IBM Research, DeepLocker is a “new breed of highly targeted and evasive attack tools powered by AI.”
DeepLocker was designed in an attempt to improve understanding of how AI models can be combined with malware techniques to create a “new breed of malware,” Stoecklin explained in a post. This new type of malware can disguise its intent until it reaches an intended victim, which could be determined by taking advantage of facial recognition, geolocation, and voice recognition.
“The DeepLocker class of malware stands in stark contrast to existing evasion techniques used by malware seen in the wild. While many malware variants try to hide their presence and malicious intent, none are as effective at doing so as DeepLocker,” Stoecklin wrote.
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Aug 10, 2018
Driverless cars will be in use everywhere within 6 years
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Traffic jams could be a thing of the past. Learn more about a driverless future: https://wef.ch/2Op4rCc
Aug 9, 2018
A military helicopter drone that can fight wildfires
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI
What if an ultra-advanced flying robot designed for extreme military missions could join the fight to combat wildfire alongside human fire crews?
The biggest wildfire in Californian history is raging, with fire officials stating earlier this week that an area almost the size of Los Angeles has been compromised.
It is actually expected to burn through the rest of August, and experts predict the escalation in frequency and scale of wildfires will only continue going forward.
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Aug 9, 2018
‘The Beginning of a Wave’: A.I. Tiptoes Into the Workplace
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
But the grand work-changing projects of A.I., like self-driving cars and humanoid robots, are not yet commercial products. A more humble version of the technology, instead, is making its presence felt in a less glamorous place: the back office.
Artificial intelligence software is making its presence felt in subtle ways, in an unglamorous place: the back office.
Aug 8, 2018
Chip Lights Up Optical Neural Network Demo
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: robotics/AI
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made a silicon chip that distributes optical signals precisely across a miniature brain-like grid, showcasing a potential new design for neural networks.
The human brain has billions of neurons (nerve cells), each with thousands of connections to other neurons. Many computing research projects aim to emulate the brain by creating circuits of artificial neural networks. But conventional electronics, including the electrical wiring of semiconductor circuits, often impedes the extremely complex routing required for useful neural networks.
The NIST team proposes to use light instead of electricity as a signaling medium. Neural networks already have demonstrated remarkable power in solving complex problems, including rapid pattern recognition and data analysis. The use of light would eliminate interference due to electrical charge, and the signals would travel faster and farther.
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Aug 7, 2018
Robot Spiders Could Help Doctors With Surgery
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Aug 7, 2018
The History of Artificial Intelligence
Posted by Ankur Bargotra in categories: business, robotics/AI
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Artificial intelligence has been a topic of growing prominence in the media and mainstream culture since 2015, as well as in the investment world, with start-ups that even mention the word in their business model, gaining massive amounts of funding.
Aug 7, 2018
Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, engineering, information science, robotics/AI
Engineers at Caltech have developed a new control algorithm that enables a single drone to herd an entire flock of birds away from the airspace of an airport. The algorithm is presented in a study in IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
The project was inspired by the 2009 “Miracle on the Hudson,” when US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of geese shortly after takeoff and pilots Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles were forced to land in the Hudson River off Manhattan.
“The passengers on Flight 1549 were only saved because the pilots were so skilled,” says Soon-Jo Chung, an associate professor of aerospace and Bren Scholar in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science as well as a JPL research scientist, and the principal investigator on the drone herding project. “It made me think that next time might not have such a happy ending. So I started looking into ways to protect airspace from birds by leveraging my research areas in autonomy and robotics.”
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