Month: July 2024

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study published in the journal Science Advances finds that AI enhances creativity by boosting the novelty of story ideas as well as the ‘usefulness’ of stories—their ability to engage the target audience and potential for...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial Intelligence now underpins many of our activities in public and private spheres, including work, education, travel, and leisure. But its rapid development and increased use has been led primarily by commercial interests rather than deliberative...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Users of voice assistants such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant know the frustration of being misunderstood by a machine. But for people who may lack a standard American accent, such miscommunication can go beyond simply...

VLMs cannot reliably count the intersections between the blue and red plots. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.06581 A trio of computer scientists at Auburn University, in the U.S., working with a colleague from the University of Alberta, in Canada, has...