By knitting together multiple components and data streams, multimodal AI offers the promise of smarter, more human-like systems…
From ACM NewsSamuel Greengard| December 7, 2023
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When a newly renovated apartment in San Francisco went on the market earlier this year for roughly $8.5 million, its asking price included a somewhat unexpected...New Scientist From ACM News | June 9, 2015
Watch your language. Words mean different things to different people—so the brainwaves they provoke could be a way to identify you.New Scientist From ACM News | May 21, 2015
It's humans versus machine at the Rivers casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Four professional poker players are squaring up to an artificial intelligence over...New Scientist From ACM News | May 7, 2015
Quantum computers should theoretically outpace ordinary ones, but attempts to build a speedy quantum machine have so far come up short. Now an approach based on...New Scientist From ACM News | April 20, 2015
In the dark abandoned shell of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Rosemary and Sakura shoot what looks like a dystopian first-person shooter game.New Scientist From ACM News | April 16, 2015
For a few days last summer, a handful of students walked through a park behind the University of Hannover in Germany.New Scientist From ACM News | April 13, 2015
Forget Skynet. Hypothetical world-ending artificial intelligence makes headlines, but the hype ignores what's happening right under our noses.New Scientist From ACM Careers | April 1, 2015
During the Middle Ages, the Vikings set sail in longships to raid faraway settlements and plunder their riches, but how did they find their way?New Scientist From ACM News | March 25, 2015
Philae, the European Space Agency probe that landed on and then bounced across the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in November, has provided researchers...New Scientist From ACM News | March 18, 2015