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Self-driving vehicles rely on fool-proof image recognition systems, which could be compromised with this one simple hack. Credit: Image created by ChatGPT. A self-driving motor vehicle is cruising along, its numerous sensors and cameras telling it when to brake, change lanes, and make turns. The vehicle approaches a stop sign at a high rate of speed, but instead of stopping, it barrels through, causing an accident. The problem will probably never be found

Tesla is eyeing robotaxi operations in New York and other American cities. Tesla is recruiting a motorist to test its driver-assistance technology in New York with an eye toward autonomous driving, according to a job listing reviewed by AFP on Wednesday. The role of "Vehicle Operator, Autopilot" involves the driving of an "engineering vehicle" for extended periods, "conducting dynamic audio and camera data collection for testing and training purpose," acco

Credit: AI-generated image Artificial intelligence is a lively topic of conversation in schools and workplaces, which could lead you to believe that only younger people use it. However, older Americans are also using AI. This raises the questions of what they're doing with the technology and what they think of it. I'm a researcher who studies older age, disability and technology use. I partnered with the University of Michigan's National Poll on Healthy Ag

A human performer leaps above robots dressed like terracotta warriors during the opening ceremony of The World Humanoid Robot Games held in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Humanoid robots danced hip-hop, performed martial arts and played keyboard, guitar and drums at the opening ceremony of the first World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Thursday evening. The competition begins Friday with more than 500 humanoid rob

Interest in limiting the ability of children to access YouTube clashes with a growing use of YouTube videos in education. YouTube has started using artificial intelligence (AI) to figure out when users are children pretending to be adults on the popular video-sharing platform amid pressure to protect minors from sensitive content. The new safeguard is being rolled out in the United States as Google-owned YouTube and social media platforms such as Instagram

Credit: Wikimedia/Pexels/The Conversation Artificial intelligence (AI) is being touted as a way to boost lagging productivity growth. The AI productivity push has some powerful multinational backers: the tech companies who make AI products and the consulting companies who sell AI-related services. It also has interest from governments. Next week, the federal government will hold a roundtable on economic reform, where AI will be a key part of the agenda. Ho

A new study involving Binghamton University researchers offers a promising solution: developing an AI system to map out interactions between content and algorithms on digital platforms to reduce the spread of potentially harmful or misleading content. Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York Falling for clickbait is easy these days, especially for those who mainly get their news through social media. Have you ever noticed your feed litte

LTI Ph.D. student Yiming Zhang developed Allie, an AI-powered chess bot trained on data from games played by humans. Zhang, shown above playing against Allie, believes training future AI systems to contemplate complex problems could create better agents for use in therapy, education and medicine. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Yiming Zhang didn't grow up playing chess. Like many other people, the Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student discovered the

A robot competes in the 1500m race during the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A. Humanoid robots raced and punched their way through three days of a multi-sport competition at the World Humanoid Robot Games, wrapping up Sunday in Beijing. But they also toppled, crashed and collapsed, requiring humans' help and leading to questions about how far, after all, the robots can go on their own. Th

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain From electric cars to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, the technologies people use every day require a growing need for electricity. In theory, nuclear fusion—a process that fuses atoms together, releasing heat to turn generators—could provide vast energy supplies with minimal emissions. But nuclear fusion is an expensive prospect because one of its main fuels is a rare version of hydrogen called tritium. Now, re

This image was taken looking out across Plymouth Sound (UK) during Storm Eunice in February 2022. The area was the focus of new research which analyzed existing records on two years of combined sewer overflows into Plymouth Sound, alongside same-day and long-term meteorological and satellite data. Credit: University of Plymouth A combination of sewage overflows and coastal winds could be sending billions of airborne microplastic particles into the world's

Working from low-resolution global precipitation data, the spateGAN-ERA5 AI model generates high-resolution fields for the analysis of heavy rainfall events. Credit: Christian Chwala, KIT Severe weather events, such as heavy rainfall, are on the rise worldwide. Reliable assessments of these events can save lives and protect property. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a new method that uses artificial intelligence (AI

Conceptualization of ultra-compact coherent silicon photonic links enabling a future disaggregated data center. Credit: Nature Photonics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01686-1 Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT are notorious for being power-hungry. To tackle this challenge, a team from the Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL) has come up with an optical chip that can transfer massive amounts of data at ultra-high speed. As thin as a st

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new journal article by a researcher at the University of Manchester offers insight into how artificial intelligence (AI) is portrayed in leading newspapers worldwide, revealing a more nuanced and critical approach than previously assumed. New research, co-authored by academics from the University of Manchester and the University of Groningen, adds nuance to the idea that journalists have hyped AI technologies. Examining

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Research in the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems has shown how artificial intelligence can be used to make personal recommendations on stopping-off places when one is traveling. The approach could optimize the route one takes and so reduce travel times and fuel consumption if traveling by road, for instance, while at the same time offering surprising and interesting places one might visit that

Overview of LEONARDO workflow. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61632-1 Nanoparticles—the tiniest building blocks of our world—are constantly in motion, bouncing, shifting, and drifting in unpredictable paths shaped by invisible forces and random environmental fluctuations. Better understanding their movements is key to developing better medicines, materials, and sensors. But observing and interpreting their motion at the atomi

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and cognition no other animal has displayed. AI chatbots can analyze sentences like a trained linguist, new UC Berkeley research shows, providing a glimpse into how AI models are improving while also challenging the idea that humans are unique in our ability to think about language. AI platforms like ChatGP