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Maths festival encourages pupils to embrace problem-solving
4+ hour, 40+ min ago (238+ words) Students explored the exciting world of numbers at a festival designed to inspire a love of mathematics. Around 80 Year 7 pupils from eight schools across the region took part in the Maths Festival, held on June 23 at the University of Chichester's…...
Ping-pong robot Ace makes history by beating top-level human players
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (568+ words) April 22 (Reuters) - An autonomous robot ping-pong player dubbed Ace has achieved a milestone for AI and robotics in Tokyo by competing against and sometimes defeating top-level human players at table tennis, a feat that could presage an array of other…...
Durham University and Sage join forces to boost AI skills in the North East
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (269+ words) Durham University has announced a new partnership with Sage to boost skills and grow talent in the region. The collaboration will focus on building AI expertise and supporting future talent across the North East. Professor Amir Michael, executive dean for…...
AI makes rewilding look tame " and misses its messy reality
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (517+ words) Humans have always imagined the natural world. From Ice Age cave paintings to the modern day, we depict the animals and landscapes we value " and ignore those we don't. Now artificial intelligence is doing the imagining for us. And when…...
68 Laughably Bad AI Fails That Made Me Go "Uh, Are We Sure This Is The Technology Of The Future?"
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (345+ words) Yahoo News UK 1. Absolute nightmare fuel. 2. This is the future liberals want. 3. Well, this is horrifying. 5. This might be the most expensive cheeseburger of all time. 7. Uh, I think that estimate is just a little off. 8. Haha, I love GRAGLLE!...
Google launched an AI model that functions like a virtual satellite. Here's how it works
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (656+ words) Satellites orbiting Earth to gather images and measurements of land, forests, cities, and coastal waters have helped scientists understand our planet. However, since these images come from many different sources, it can be difficult to combine them into a single…...
New AI tool could speed up skin cancer diagnoses in remote parts of world
11+ mon, 6+ day ago (579+ words) A researcher at a Scottish university has developed AI tools that could give people in remote areas of the world access to fast and potentially life-saving skin cancer diagnoses. Tess Watt, the Ph D student at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh…...
Can AI teach us how animals think?
10+ mon, 4+ day ago (901+ words) How is an animal feeling at a given moment? Humans have long recognised certain well-known behaviour like a cat hissing as a warning, but in many cases we've had little clue of what's going on inside an animal's head. The…...
Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (600+ words) In his genre-defining 1950 collection of science fiction short stories "I, Robot," author Isaac Asimov laid out the Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm....
Mathematicians Say There's a Number So Big It's the Edge of Human Knowledge
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (219+ words) The Busy Beaver number, or BB(n), represents a mathematical problem that tries to calculate the longest possible run-time of a Turing machine recording 1s and 0s on an infinitely long tape for various sets of instructions called states. While the first three…...