Author: Tech Explore

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Emery Berger, recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene. Programs written with Python are notoriously slow—up to 60,000 times slower than code...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain NYU Tandon School of Engineering researchers developed a new artificial intelligence technique to change a person’s apparent age in images while maintaining their unique identifying features, a significant step forward from standard AI models that can...

14nm analog AI chip resting in researcher’s hand. Credit: Ryan Lavine for IBM Separate developments in speech recognition technology from IBM and California universities at San Francisco and Berkeley offer promising news for patients suffering from vocal paralysis and speech...

Tesla’s Elon Musk is among those claiming that AI could make humanity extinct, while standing to benefit by arguing only their products can save us. Silicon Valley’s favorite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around...

Code Interpreter, the newest official plugin for ChatGPT, didn’t make the grade from West Virginia University researchers who put it to the test using biological data. However, the team was impressed with some of the tool’s added features that will...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Of all the forms of human intellect that one might expect artificial intelligence to emulate, few people would likely place creativity at the top of their list. Creativity is wonderfully mysterious—and frustratingly fleeting. It defines us...

Examples of mineral photos from different datasets. Credit: Artur Kadurin Identifying minerals is a complex and time-consuming problem for geologists, often taking anywhere from 30 minutes to several days per sample. Further complicating the situation is the fact that a...

Credit: shutterstock Bad data does not only produce bad outcomes. It can also help to suppress sections of society, for instance vulnerable women and minorities. This is the argument of my new book on the relationship between various forms of...

Breakneck development of AI risked repeating mistakes made by the tech industry at the start of the social media era, Microsoft president Brad Smith told a business forum. Breakneck development of artificial intelligence risked repeating mistakes made by the tech...

In these figures, a simulated robot performs three contact-rich manipulation tasks: in-hand manipulation of a ball, picking up a plate, and manipulating a pen into a specific orientation. Credit: H.J. Terry Suh, Lujie Yang, Russ Tedrake, et al Imagine you...