Vector databases, commonly used for similarity search and product recommendations, are a shining light in the era of Artificial…
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Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software. The impact cast a long shadow.
Wired From ACM News | March 14, 2022
Researchers are looking to artificial intelligence as a way to potentially identify and predict problem gambling.
The New York Time From ACM TechNews | March 11, 2022
The technology is spreading fast among police, and often wrong. But people charged with crimes are rarely told an algorithm came into play.
Wired From ACM News | March 10, 2022
New artificial intelligence-powered algorithms based on laboratory soil hyperspectral data can estimate soil organic carbon properties as precisely as fieldwork...University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences From ACM TechNews | March 10, 2022
Analyzes emotions, not specific content, in social media posts to generate a user's emotional "fingerprint"
Dartmouth College From ACM TechNews | March 8, 2022
Researchers at North Carolina State University and Turkey's Dokuz Eylul University have cracked next-generation homomorphic encryption via side-channel attacks....NC State University News From ACM TechNews | March 4, 2022
Cornell University's Fengqi You and Ning Zhao have designed an artificial intelligence tool that could help New York state plan its switch to clean electricity
...Cornell Chronicle From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2022
Researchers have devleoped a method of incorporating fairness into machine learning models, even if they are trained on unfair data.
MIT News From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2022
The MADDOX self-learning assistance system can analyze machine and process data in order to boost manufacturing efficiency.
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Germany) From ACM TechNews | March 3, 2022
The National Hockey League is launching a faceoff probability statistic, using Amazon Web Services to apply 10 years of data and in-game analytics.
Associated Press From ACM TechNews | March 2, 2022
Scientists found fake profiles produced by artificial intelligence on the business social network LinkedIn can easily deceive people.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 28, 2022
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers used machine learning and artificial intelligence to better understand how interacting traits influence brain cells'...University of Wisconsin-Madison News From ACM TechNews | February 28, 2022
An approach that uses hours of video and elements of reinforcement learning can guide a robot vehicle almost two miles without a full map of the surroundings.
ZDNet From ACM News | February 25, 2022
A cheese robot created by Klavs Martin Sørensen at Denmark's University of Copenhagen is employed at Danish dairy company Arla to help with quality control.
University of Copenhagen (Denmark) From ACM TechNews | February 25, 2022
Researchers at driverless car company Waymo and Google Research used self-driving vehicles to create a virtual model of San Francisco.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 24, 2022
U.K. surgeons saved the life of a baby girl with a rare heart condition using a three-dimensionally-printed model of her heart.
University Hospital Southampton (U.K.) From ACM TechNews | February 23, 2022