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Google has launched Bard, an AI-powered chatbot to compete with Microsoft’s ChatGPT. The company announced the expansion of its use of artificial intelligence across its platform during its annual developer conference in Silicon Valley. According to executives, generative AI will be used to enhance the tech giant’s search engine, with all core products reimagined. Bard

As concerns grow over China’s ownership of TikTok and the effects of social media on children’s mental health, tech regulation has been gaining momentum on Capitol Hill. President Joe Biden has called for bipartisan legislation to impose stricter limits on the collection of personal data and ban targeted advertising to children. Both Republicans and Democrats

Solar energy has become a popular source of sustainable energy in recent years. However, the intermittent nature of solar energy has limited its use for certain applications, such as IoT devices, live remote sensing, and off-grid power supplies. Conventionally, batteries are used to store the energy generated by solar cells, but combining the two technologies

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools have become increasingly common in today’s technological landscape. However, most of these tools are based on “black box” models, which analyze data and make predictions without sharing their processes with human users. To address this issue, researchers at Meta Reality Labs have created a framework called XAIR that

Artificial intelligence has long been a topic of concern for many technology leaders and researchers, who believe it could pose a threat to humanity. Stephen Hawking, for example, once warned that the development of AI could spell the end of the human race. Others, such as OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk, have expressed similar worries, stating

Germany’s Economy Minister, Robert Habeck, has presented a plan to cap the price of electricity used by energy-intensive industries. The move aims to insulate the sector against sharp cost increases. However, the proposal has already sparked criticism. The cap would be set at €0.06 ($0.07) per gigawatt-hour (GWh) and would apply until 2030. At least

Anomaly detection is a valuable tool in distinguishing normal data from abnormal data. It is achieved by assigning anomaly scores to each instance, which are then ranked and evaluated. However, using a static unsupervised streaming anomaly detector can be difficult to dynamically adjust anomaly score calculation. To overcome this, a research team led by Prof.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been causing unease among Hollywood writers, with chatbots that write or rewrite scripts being one of the key concerns. The Writers Guild of America is currently striking for better pay, but AI is looming as a rising anxiety. AI-Powered Screenwriting AI chatbots could potentially be used to create a rough first

In March 2023, a group of researchers and tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, published an open letter calling for a pause in the artificial intelligence (AI) race. They recommended that labs halt the training of technologies stronger than OpenAI’s GPT-4, the most sophisticated language-generating AI system, for at least six months. While

Biomass energy is a type of renewable energy that is stored within biomass through photosynthesis. It is the only carbon source that is renewable. China has abundant biomass resources, and previous studies have emphasized the potential energy use of biomass resources in China. However, there has been no systematic study of energy conservation and carbon

Germany’s energy minister, Robert Habeck, has announced a series of measures to ease bureaucratic hurdles for solar power. This follows the country’s new record for photovoltaic installations during the first quarter of 2023. Europe’s largest economy added 2.7 gigawatts of solar power capacity during this period, indicating that it is on course to beat the

Researchers have been trying to develop more energy-efficient and faster machine learning systems that can replicate the versatile computational abilities of biological neurons for decades. One promising approach has been the use of memristors – electronic components that can store a value by modifying their conductance and then use that value for in-memory processing. However,

Researchers have developed an algorithm that can locate any point on Earth using signals from multi-constellation Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. The algorithm can exploit signals broadcast by Starlink, OneWeb, Orbcomm, and Iridium satellites, without assistance from the satellite operators. The Study Led by Zak Kassas, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at The

Experts at the University of Oxford and international collaborators have released a new study in Nature Machine Intelligence that addresses the ethical concerns related to the responsibility for outputs generated by large language models (LLMs). LLMs such as ChatGPT pose critical issues regarding the attribution of credit and rights for useful text generation, which differs