Artificial Intelligence
The World’s First Programmable Photonic Chip
In a revolutionary step for telecommunications, data centers, and artificial intelligence systems, researchers at UPV’s Photonics Research Laboratory in Spain worked with private company...
Cheap AI Chips Used to Boost Hypersonic Weapons Range
Researchers from the Beijing Power Machinery Research Institute and the Dalian University of Technology integrated a cheap AI chip module (the NVIDIA Jetson TX2i)...
The Power of Persuasion: AI Uses Personal Information to Change Your Mind
A new study from EPFL demonstrates the persuasive power of LLMs, finding that participants debating GPT-4 (which had access to their personal information) were...
The US Navy’s New Automated Vessel
Palantir (an American AI firm) partnered with HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (a South Korean shipbuilding company) to develop an unmanned surface vessel for the...
Microsoft’s New AI Watchdog Meant to Detect Malicious Prompts
Microsoft announces new techniques to fight against two types of attacks used by malicious actors to jailbreak AI systems – AI Spotlighting (which separates...
Cybergangs Are Using AI-Generated Code – What Are the Implications?
Cybercriminals impersonating legitimate German companies are attacking organizations across various industries in the country using AI, as was reported by cybersecurity company Proofpoint.
The hackers,...
AI in Wartime
Artificial intelligence is gaining use in modern warfare – what does it mean, and is it dangerous? AI, while faster than humans, is not...
A Look into the Cyberthreats Leading to the Elections
2024 is an election year for many countries worldwide, and cybersecurity experts are worried about the destructive influence cyber threats and AI can cause.
Take...
The 2024 Milipol Singapore Exhibition – A Review of Trends in The HLS Market
Written by Or Shalom
The Milipol exhibition, held in Singapore on April 3-5, 2024, dealt as always with homeland security technologies. The exhibition, in collaboration...
Too Dangerous? OpenAI Won’t Release Its Voice Cloning Tool for Fear of Misuse
OpenAI’s tool can generate a convincing clone of a person’s voice with just 15 seconds of recorded audio, and was deemed too risky for...
Miniature Robot ‘Smart Swarms’ Inspired by Nature Could Soon Flow Through Our Bodies
Researchers developed “smart swarms” of miniature robots after drawing inspiration from nature, observing ant colonies, fish schools, and beehives. These mini-bot swarms collaborate through engineered...
Quantum Computers Just Turned 800 Times More Reliable
Quantum computing company Quantinuum and tech giant Microsoft claim they reached an “unprecedented” breakthrough in quantum computing reliability, drastically reducing error rates and physical...
Evaluating Large Language Models for Cybersecurity Applications
A white paper published by SEI and OpenAI claims large language models could be an asset for cybersecurity professionals, but must be evaluated using...
Electronic Warfare Gets New Human-Like Thinking
The Southwest Research Institute was commissioned by the United States Air Force to develop a new “cognitive” electronic warfare system, with algorithms to help...
Global Strategies to Accelerate AI in Science and Research
The International Science Council's Center for Science Futures published the report "Preparing National Research Ecosystems for AI: Strategies and Progress in 2024" to address...
AI Helps Cops Detect Guns on the Subway
New York City will soon test out new AI technology that detects guns at subway turnstiles, an initiative led by Mayor Eric Adams.
NY state...
Can AI Fact-Check Another AI? DeepMind Thinks It Can
A research team of artificial intelligence experts from Google's company DeepMind developed SAFE – an artificial intelligence system meant to fact-check the results of...
The Solution to AI’s Growing Energy Appetite – Nuclear Fusion
While artificial intelligence has been gaining immense and growing popularity, with companies releasing new versions on a monthly basis, there are also growing concerns...
Two Revolutionary AI Chips Can Control Robots Through Thought
These two chips might be the key to developing sophisticated brain-computer interfacing.
Scientists from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China claim to...
Can AI Help Fight Cybercrime?
Experts claim artificial intelligence could become a crucial asset in fighting the growing global risk of cybercrime, as published in a new study led...
Fighting Forest Fires with Drone Swarms
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science are using multiple drone swarms to deal with forest fires, which are becoming increasingly common worldwide due...
Best Solution to Detect Deepfakes? Use AI
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence make it increasingly harder to detect deepfake voices, and the solution might actually come from AI itself.
Scientists at Klick...
