Industria 4.0

Industria 4.0

Deepfake of principal's voice is the latest case of AI being used for harm
30/04/2024 - The most recent criminal case involving artificial intelligence emerged last week from a Maryland high school, where police say a principal was framed as racist by a fake recording of his voice.
Initiative encourages computer science students to incorporate ethics into their work
30/04/2024 - Computer science students at the University of Toronto are learning how to incorporate ethical considerations into the design and development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence with...
Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion in AI and cloud infrastructure in Indonesia
30/04/2024 - Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Indonesia—the single largest investment in Microsoft's 29-year history in the...
How artificial intelligence can transform U.S. energy infrastructure
30/04/2024 - In the face of accelerating climate change, the U.S. aims to reduce the net carbon emissions of its economy to zero by 2050. Achieving this goal will require an unprecedented deployment of clean...
Maps developed with artificial intelligence confirm low levels of phosphorus in Amazonian soil
30/04/2024 - As the impacts of climate change increasingly affect the daily lives of residents in several countries, including Brazil, the resilience of forests, especially tropical ones such as the Amazon, has...
Regulate AI? How US, EU and China are going about It
28/04/2024 - GOVERNMENTS do not have a great track record of keeping up with emerging technology. But the complex, rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI) raises legal, national security and civil...
Google plans to invest $2 billion to build data center in northeast Indiana, officials say
28/04/2024 - Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeastern Indiana that will help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business, company and state officials said...
Cybersecurity firm Darktrace accepts $5 bn takeover
28/04/2024 - Cybersecurity firm Darktrace said Friday it had accepted a $5.3-billion takeover bid from US private equity firm Thoma Bravo, which highlighted the British group's "capability in artificial...
Microsoft expands its AI empire abroad
28/04/2024 - Microsoft, the tech titan most closely associated with AI, has announced nearly $10 billion in investments in artificial intelligence abroad in recent months, the price it is willing to pay to remain...
Microsoft quarterly profit rises 20% as tech giant pushes to get customers using AI products
28/04/2024 - Microsoft on Thursday said its profit rose 20% for the January-March quarter as it tries to position itself as a leader in applying artificial intelligence technology to make workplaces more...
Balancing AI and physics: Toward a learnable climate model
25/04/2024 - Artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing notable changes to atmospheric science, particularly with the introduction of large AI weather models like Pangu-Weather and GraphCast. However, alongside...
Study explores why human-inspired machines can be perceived as eerie
25/04/2024 - Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and robots are becoming increasingly advanced, exhibiting capabilities that vaguely resemble those of humans. The growing similarities between AIs and humans...
Meta profits soar but costs of AI cause worry
25/04/2024 - Facebook-owner Meta on Wednesday said its quarterly profits soared last quarter, but worries about the cost of artificial intelligence saw its share price take a hit on Wall Street.
On the trail of deepfakes, researchers identify 'fingerprints' of AI-generated video
25/04/2024 - In February, OpenAI released videos created by its generative artificial intelligence program Sora. The strikingly realistic content, produced via simple text prompts, is the latest breakthrough for...
Coordinate-wise monotonic transformations enable privacy-preserving age estimation with 3D face point cloud
24/04/2024 - In a recent publication in Science China Life Sciences, a research team led by Professor Jing-Dong Jackie Han and Ph.D. student Xinyu Yang from Peking University established a deep learning model for...
Cisco Systems joins Microsoft, IBM in Vatican pledge to ensure ethical use and development of AI
24/04/2024 - Tech giant Cisco Systems on Wednesday joined Microsoft and IBM in signing onto a Vatican-sponsored pledge to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically and to benefit the common...
Emulating neurodegeneration and aging in artificial intelligence systems
24/04/2024 - In recent years, developers have introduced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can simulate or reproduce various human abilities, such as recognizing objects in images, answering questions,...
Researchers develop deep learning alternative to monitoring laser powder bed fusion
24/04/2024 - Many things can go wrong when additively manufacturing (AM) metal and without in-situ process monitoring, defects can only be detected and characterized after a product is built. Most commonly,...
AI weather forecasts can capture destructive path of major storms, new study shows
23/04/2024 - Artificial intelligence (AI) can quickly and accurately predict the path and intensity of major storms, a new study demonstrates.
DeFake tool protects voice recordings from cybercriminals
23/04/2024 - In what has become a familiar refrain when discussing artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled technologies, voice cloning makes possible beneficial advances in accessibility and creativity while also...
The use of AI in war games could change military strategy
23/04/2024 - The rise of commercially viable generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform a vast range of sectors. This transformation will be particularly profound in contemporary...