Can AI Help Build Cities Better?
Planners hope that the right balance of automation and human accountability will contribute to more livable and sustainable urban environments.
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Automating Call Centers with AI
Even people in the contact center industry support the use of AI, potentially at the expense of their own jobs.
Recent research holds some clues as to which jobs are being affected by AI and shows signs of how that is playing out in the jobs markets.
Scientists are using machine learning techniques such as classifiers to identify units of language and hope deep neural networks will help them figure out what animals might be talking about.
AI Datacenters Need Nuclear Fusion
Fusion reactors may answer the question of where energy for AI datacenters will come from.
Juice jacking requires attackers to tamper with a public USB charging station to load malicious software that would open a device to two-way data transfer.
AI may be adding a new layer to the cognitive processes that go into human decision making.
Language Models Wrestle with Gaps in Understanding
Bigger language models tend to use the first half of their layer stack to extract a single fact, no matter how many layers they have available in total.
Some AI labs support digital watermarking to indicate whether an image is generated by an AI tool.
How Far Away Is Quantum Supremacy?
Two big obstacles stand between current quantum computers and the hardware needed for business use cases.
Improving Everyday Computer-Human Interactions
Solutions presented in several papers at CHI 2025 may not be as simple to implement as they sound, experts say.
The Pros and Cons of Zero Trust
Implementations are complex, resource-intensive, and involve high costs.
AI’s Benefits Can Be Marginal in Medicine
The perception of AI driving magical medical breakthroughs is often far from the truth.
Illusions provide a way to study compositional generation and understand how machine learning models generate images.
Fighting for the Right to Repair
Advocates say incentives such as taxes on non-reparable goods and subsidies for repair-friendly designs could encourage manufacturers to support DIY repairs.
AI Teams Contend With Synthetic Data’s Jekyll/Hyde Roles
Experiments show a degradation in foundation-model performance once synthetic training data becomes too prevalent.
How AI Could Supercharge AR and VR
AI technologies and innovations are expected to unlock unprecedented experiences across AR and VR devices.
AI is sometimes not truthful, raising questions about how safe and reliable AI tools are in software development.
Researchers are developing generative AI models that match the sensibilities of a specific culture, group, or language.
Nuclear Power for AI; AI for Nuclear Power?
Regulation of AI technologies in the U.S. nuclear industry may be coming within the next year.
Could Biocomputers Revolutionize Scientific Research?
Recently developed biocomputing platforms are becoming available to researchers.
Scrutinizing LLM Reasoning Models
One team found a correlation between concise prompts and accurate answers.
Dozens of AI tools that can help improve elderly care are already being deployed in hospitals.
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