• Video Friday: Detour on Mars

    Video Friday: Detour on Mars
    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
    IEEE RO-MAN 2023: 28–31 August 2023, BUSAN, SOUTH KOREAIROS 2023: 1–5 October 2023, DETROITCLAWAR 2023: 2–4 October 2023, FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZILHumanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEXAS, USAEnjoy today’s videos! NASA&
  • Tinder Is Getting an AI Upgrade to Help You Decide What Photos Are the Hottest

    Tinder Is Getting an AI Upgrade to Help You Decide What Photos Are the Hottest
    Like every other tech company, Tinder is bringing artificial intelligence to its operations in an attempt to create a better user experience, its parent company Matchgroup said in its Q2 earnings letter on Wednesday. The company says it plans to create new features around the needs of Gen Z users.Read more...
  • Experience: scammers used AI to fake my daughter’s kidnap

    Experience: scammers used AI to fake my daughter’s kidnap
    No part of me questioned whether this was real - I had to save my baby‘Mom?” repeated my daughter’s voice on my phone. “I’ve messed up.” My heart sank and I started trembling. I heard a man instructing her to lie down and put her head back. My 15-year-old daughter, Briana, was at a skiing competition with my husband two hours away, and I instantly thought she’d been badly hurt. I was in my car, picking up her sister Aubrey, who is 13, from dance class in
  • AI companies aren’t afraid of regulation – we want it to be international and inclusive | Dorothy Chou

    AI companies aren’t afraid of regulation – we want it to be international and inclusive | Dorothy Chou
    If our industry is to avoid superficial ethics-washing, historically excluded communities must be brought into the conversationAI is advancing at a rapid pace, bringing with it potentially transformative benefits for society. With discoveries such as AlphaFold, for example, we’re starting to improve our understanding of some long-neglected diseases, with 200m protein structures made available at once – a feat that previously would have required four years of doctorate-level research
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