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Governments Must Act Fast: AI Report Highlights Growing Dangers

The first International AI Safety Report, led by Yoshua Bengio, consolidates expert insights on AI risks and policy guidance for global decision-makers.

3 Feb 2025

Deepfake Democracy? AI Threatens 2025 Elections Worldwide

As AI reshapes political landscapes, researchers propose a four-point global framework to safeguard electoral integrity against AI-driven threats, ensuring fair and transparent democratic processes.

3 Feb 2025

AI Can’t Replace Human Creativity, But It Can Enhance It

AI is not a replacement for human creativity but a tool that enhances and augments human skills, according to new research from the University of South Australia. The study highlights that generative AI relies fundamentally on human intervention, with significant implications for education, employment, and the future of work.

3 Feb 2025

AI Job Boom Defies Market Decline as ChatGPT Reshapes Hiring

AI job postings in the U.S. surged by 68% from Q4 2022 to Q4 2024, despite an overall 17% decline in job postings. A new study from the University of Maryland highlights the "ChatGPT effect" driving this trend, with AI roles expanding across multiple economic sectors.

3 Feb 2025

AI Risks Escalate as Advanced Models Gain Power and Autonomy

AI safety experts warn that rapid advancements in general-purpose AI pose increasing risks, from cyber threats to systemic economic impacts, urging better safeguards and international oversight.

2 Feb 2025

AI Safety Showdown: DeepSeek-R1 Falls Behind OpenAI’s o3-mini

DeepSeek-R1 is nearly ten times less safe than OpenAI’s o3-mini, with higher rates of unsafe responses, particularly in financial crime, violence, and hate speech categories. OpenAI’s policy safeguards play a crucial role in preventing harmful outputs.

2 Feb 2025

AI-Powered Sketching Tool Inkspire Breaks Design Fixation and Boosts Creativity

Inkspire, a sketch-driven AI tool, helps designers explore novel ideas by integrating analogical inspirations and a dynamic sketch-to-design feedback loop, overcoming design fixation.

2 Feb 2025

Foundation Models Transform 3D AI by Bridging Vision, Language, and Spatial Learning

Researchers explore how foundation models, originally developed for 2D vision and language tasks, are revolutionizing 3D point cloud understanding by leveraging multimodal learning techniques.

2 Feb 2025

Microsoft Boosts AI Speech Recognition Accuracy for Non-Standard English Speakers

Microsoft’s Azure AI Speech platform has significantly improved its ability to recognize non-standard English speech, with accuracy gains between 18% and 60%, by leveraging recordings from the University of Illinois' Speech Accessibility Project.

2 Feb 2025

AI Predicts 3D Genome Structures in Minutes, Transforming Genetic Research

MIT chemists have developed an AI-driven method to predict 3D genome structures in minutes, significantly accelerating research on gene expression and cellular functions.

2 Feb 2025

AI-Powered OPED Software Slashes EV Powertrain Development from Months to a Day

Researchers at TU Graz have developed OPED, an AI-powered software that shortens the development phase of battery electric vehicle powertrains from several months to just one day, optimizing components for efficiency, cost, and sustainability.

30 Jan 2025

AI Enhances Electrospray Deposition for Advanced Manufacturing

Researchers at Binghamton University and the University at Buffalo are using AI and computational modeling to refine electrospray deposition, a technique for producing ultra-thin polymer films with applications in electronics and healthcare.

30 Jan 2025

AI-Driven Breakthrough Enhances LIGO’s Gravitational Wave Detection by Reducing Noise

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have developed an unsupervised machine learning tool that identifies patterns in LIGO's environmental data, reducing noise and improving gravitational wave detection.

30 Jan 2025

Los Alamos Supercharges National Security with OpenAI's Most Advanced AI

Los Alamos National Laboratory is integrating OpenAI's latest AI models into its Venado supercomputer, leveraging NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips to enhance national security research and scientific innovation. This collaboration aims to revolutionize fields such as energy, cybersecurity, and quantum computing.

30 Jan 2025

Rethinking AI Governance: A Bold Plan for Equity and Accountability

A new AI governance framework prioritizes equity from the start, ensuring fairness and accountability in AI development. By tackling bias and promoting inclusivity, this approach seeks to protect marginalized communities while fostering responsible AI innovation.

30 Jan 2025

AI-Powered Protein Editing Revolutionizes Synthetic Biology

Researchers have developed ProtET, a cutting-edge AI model that uses multi-modal learning to enable precise, text-guided protein editing, paving the way for breakthroughs in biotechnology and medicine.

29 Jan 2025

AI Model EpiBERT Predicts Gene Expression by Unlocking DNA’s Hidden Regulatory Code

Scientists have developed EpiBERT, an AI model that predicts gene expression by decoding chromatin accessibility and regulatory grammar across human cell types.

29 Jan 2025

Cutting-Edge AI & VR System Helps Students with Autism Navigate Social Life

University of Kansas researchers are enhancing their VR-based social skills training system for students with disabilities by integrating AI, creating a more immersive and natural learning experience.

29 Jan 2025

Explainable AI Boosts Wind Power Forecasting for Smarter Energy Grids

Researchers at EPFL's WiRE Lab have integrated explainable AI (XAI) into wind power forecasting models, improving transparency and reliability in predicting wind energy generation. Their study shows that XAI can identify key input variables, reducing uncertainty and making wind power more competitive in the energy market.

29 Jan 2025

AI Thrives in Real-World Chaos After Training in Calm, Simulated Environments

MIT researchers discovered that training AI agents in noise-free simulated environments, termed the "indoor training effect," can improve their performance in noisy real-world scenarios, challenging the conventional wisdom of matching training and testing environments. This phenomenon was observed across various Atari games and could lead to better AI training methods.

29 Jan 2025