• Zoom Backtracks on Training AI on Your Calls

    Zoom Backtracks on Training AI on Your Calls
    After massive backlash over its wishy-washy communication regarding training artificial intelligence with customer data, Zoom wants to set the record straight. Today, Zoom issued an update to its previous announcement on its plans for AI to formally claim that the company will not use audio, video, chat, or similar…Read more...
  • 3D Haptic Display Melds Touch With Tech

    3D Haptic Display Melds Touch With Tech
    What started out as trying to create soft, simulated organs for medical devices and surgical robots, has given us, instead, a touch-sensitive, shape-morphing 3D display. This multifunctional device, developed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, is about as big as a board game, and can create pop-up patterns, manipulate objects across its surface, and shake a beaker of liquid.“The whole concept of creating the 3d display was
  • Video Friday: A 3-Year-Old Robot

    Video Friday: A 3-Year-Old Robot
    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, TEX.Enjoy today’s videos!Humans are so
  • AI can be a force for good or ill in society, so everyone must shape it, not just the ‘tech guys’ | Afua Bruce

    AI can be a force for good or ill in society, so everyone must shape it, not just the ‘tech guys’ | Afua Bruce
    Although designers do have a lot of power, AI is just a tool conceived to benefit us. Communities must make sure that happensSuperpower. Catastrophic. Revolutionary. Irresponsible. Efficiency-creating. Dangerous. These terms have been used to describe artificial intelligence over the past several months. The release of ChatGPT to the general public thrusts AI into the limelight, and many are left wondering: how it is different from other technologies, and what will happen when the way we do busi
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  • News Corp profits dive 75% as Rupert Murdoch-owned company hints at AI future

    News Corp profits dive 75% as Rupert Murdoch-owned company hints at AI future
    Poor result weighed down by lower print and digital advertising at News Corp Australia, a division that includes flagship newspaper The AustralianFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has recorded a steep 75% drop in full-year profit but sees opportunities ahead as it expands the use of cost-saving AI-produced content.The US-listed media conglomerate – which owns
  • Nice recommends use of AI in NHS radiotherapy treatment in England

    Nice recommends use of AI in NHS radiotherapy treatment in England
    Nine technologies approved for carrying out external beam radiotherapy in lung, prostate and colorectal cancersPatients in England having radiotherapy are likely to have part of their treatment performed with the aid of artificial intelligence after its use to help NHS clinicians was recommended for the first time.Draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) has given approval to nine AI technologies for performing external beam radiotherapy in lung, prostate
  • News Corp: profits dive at Rupert Murdoch-owned company as media group hints at AI future plans

    News Corp: profits dive at Rupert Murdoch-owned company as media group hints at AI future plans
    Murdoch’s News Corporation reported a 75% fall in full-year profit, with digital accounting for more than half of revenueFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastRupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has reported a 75% drop in full-year profit but sees opportunities ahead as it plans to take advantage of advances in generative AI.The US-listed media group – which owns News Corp Australia, masthead