Plane food is terrible – now airlines are betting on AI to fix it

Let’s face it, eating a reheated pre-made meal out of small tubs with wooden or plastic cutlery while crammed in a coach seat is hardly ever going to be a fine-dining experience. But airlines are now looking to new technology in an effort to give us mo… Continue reading Plane food is terrible – now airlines are betting on AI to fix it

Sneaky AI model deliberately corrupts training images to sidestep copyright

A big problem with text-to-image generators is their ability to replicate the original works used to train them, thereby infringing an artist’s copyright. Under US law, if you create an original work and ‘fix’ it in a tangible form, you own its copyrig… Continue reading Sneaky AI model deliberately corrupts training images to sidestep copyright

Dell AI Laptops Will Be Powered By Next-Gen Qualcomm Processors

Five new laptops use the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series processor to run AI. Dell AI offerings expand with NVIDIA, Hugging Face and others. Continue reading Dell AI Laptops Will Be Powered By Next-Gen Qualcomm Processors

Shape-shifting slime robots: How to control something with no set form?

The world was introduced to the concept of shape-changing robots in 1991, with the T-1000 featured in the cult movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Since then (if not before), many a scientist has dreamed of creating a robot with the ability to change its… Continue reading Shape-shifting slime robots: How to control something with no set form?

Dexterous robot hand can take a beating in the name of AI research

A robotics company likely most famous for a demo of its dexterous robot hand at Amazon re:MARS with Jeff Bezos has now unveiled a new robust model designed for machine learning research, which was developed in collaboration with Google’s DeepMind.Conti… Continue reading Dexterous robot hand can take a beating in the name of AI research