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My colleagues and Iat Purdue University have uncovered a significant imbalance in the human values embedded inAIsystems. The systems were predominantly oriented toward information and utility values and less toward prosocial, well-being and civic values. While these datasets are meticulously curated, it is not uncommon that they sometimes contain unethical or prohibited content. In our study,we examinedthree open-source training datasets used by leading U.S. AI companies. Our model allowed us to examine the AI companies datasets....

Swiss foodies could soon be served an experimental new delicacy: cultivated burgers. The lab-grown cuisine is the brainchild of Dutch scaleup Mosa Meat. Founded in 2013, the companycultivates beeffrom cells extracted from cows. The blend is then formed into burgers that are indistinguishable from the mince on supermarket shelves. The lucky cattle, meanwhile, amble back to the farm. Mosacalls the productthe worlds kindest burger. Swiss authorities are the latest target for Mosa....

Twelve years on, this is no longer the stuff of science fiction. But just like Samantha, automatic speech recognition systems still cannot do everything that a human listener can. Maybe youve dictated a note on your phone, only to spend time editing garbled words. Linguistics and computer science researchers have shown that these systems work worse for some people than for others. Or they take a probabilistic guess, a move that can sometimes result in an error....

Artificial intelligence istaking over drug development, claim some companies and researchers. AI in drug discoveryis nonsense, warn some industry veterans. Unlike the success of AI inimage analysis, its effect on drug development remains unclear. We argue that AI in drug development is not yet a game-changer, nor is it complete nonsense. AI is not a black box that can turn any idea into gold. But can AI truly revolutionise drug development and improve success rates?...

We created two separate deepfake detection methodsintended to encourage fairness. It turns out the first method worked best. Moreover, it increased accuracy while enhancing fairness, which was our main focus. We believe fairness and accuracy are crucial if the public is to acceptartificial intelligencetechnology. When large language models like ChatGPT hallucinate,they can perpetuate erroneous information. This affects public trust and safety. A deepfake of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2022 purported to show him calling on his troops to lay down their arms....

The NBA is experimenting with a digital brain for basketballs. The system is the brainchild of SportIQ, a Finnish startup that develops smart basketballs. Inside each balls valve, SportIQ embeds a sensor that tracks a players shots. Data is first extracted on their form, position, angle, power, and technique. Next, the information is fed to a mobile app for AI analysis. Players then receive direct feedback and advice. According to SportIQ, over 20 million shots have already been tracked....

They call their project OpenEuroLLM. LikeDeepSeek, they aim to develop next-generation open-source language models but their agenda is very different. Their mission: forging European AI that will foster digital leaders and impactful public services across the continent. To support these objectives, OpenEuroLLM is building a family of high-performing, multilingual large language foundation models. The models will be available for commercial, industrial, and public services. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....

These devicesrely on electrodes, sensors that touch the skin to pick up electrical signals from the body. Creating these electrodes isnt as easy as it might seem. These changes can make it hard to test how well a wearable gadget works. Additionally, testing electrodes often involveshuman volunteers, which can be tricky and unpredictable. Everyones skin is different, meaning results arent always consistent. Testing also takes time and money. What is a skin phantom?...

A German startup plans to jumpstart European EVs with an AI-powered brain. Sphere Energy built the system to simulate battery behaviour. According to Sphere, the insights shrink the battery testing cycle by at least a year. Developing a car, meanwhile, could be completed at least twice as quickly. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. The startups co-founder, Lukas Lutz, said the plans are unprecedented. Nobody right now not even Tesla can accurately estimate the lifetime of their battery, Lutz told TNW....

The rapid spread ofartificial intelligencehas people wondering: whos most likely to embrace AI in their daily lives? Many assume its the tech-savvy those who understand how AI works who are most eager to adopt it. Surprisingly, our new research (published in theJournal of Marketing) finds the opposite. People with less knowledge about AI are actually more open to using the technology. We call this difference in adoption propensity the lower literacy-higher receptivity link....

One is creating a compiler. That fundamental building block of many programming languages translates the more human-understandable code into something a computer understands. Another and far more ambitious challenge is building an operating system. The scope is almost limitless. You could create a command line operating system that works on limited hardware or on a low-level machine. This is the approach many browsers take. A battle that even the venerable Firefox is slowly losing....

Feynman suggested that the strange physics of quantum mechanics could be used to perform calculations. The field ofquantum computingwas born. In the 40-plus years since, it has become an intensive area of research in computer science. Questions and uncertainties still remain about the best ways to reach this milestone. What exactly isquantumcomputing, and how close are we to seeing them enter wide use? Classical computers process information using combinations ofbits, their smallest units of data....

Shares in ASML have bounced back from the hit inflicted by DeepSeeks AI advances. The tools produce the most advanced semiconductors in the world and ASML is the only company that manufactures them. This dominant position has made ASML the second most valuable tech firm in Europe. But the business wasshaken on Mondayby DeepSeeks rapid AI progress. The results sent tech stocks spiralling. Nvidia set an alarming precedent, suffering the largest rout inmarket history....