Actress Scarlett Johansson released a statement this week expressing anger and concern that OpenAI used a voice “eerily similar” to…
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As with all new trends, ‘smart manufacturing’ is a phrase we seem to be seeing everywhere. From specialist magazines to…
Many people understand the concept of bias at some intuitive level. In society, and in artificial intelligence systems, racial and…
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau recently announced a C$2.4-billion (£1.4bn) investment in artificial intelligence. Part of the funding will create…
A robot is chatting to an elderly British man in his bedroom. The robot has a cheery demeanour and a…
AI has long since surpassed humans in cognitive matters that were once considered the supreme disciplines of human intelligence like…
Cotton is one of the world’s largest crops and is harvested with large, heavy machines. Robotic harvesting could yield higher-quality cotton with less damage to plants and soil.…
‘Loopy’ is a multicellular robot inspired by biology and designed to react to its environment without instructions on how to do so. My colleagues and I…
Scientists have been trying to build snakelike, limbless robots for decades. These robots could come in handy in search-and-rescue situations,…
The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) applications has traditionally been dominated by the use of resource-intensive servers centralised in industrialised…
