Using reflections to see the world from new points of view
As a car travels along a narrow city street, reflections off the glossy paint or side mirrors of parked vehicles can help the driver glimpse things that would otherwise be...
An ML-based approach to better characterize lung diseases
Posted by Babak Behsaz, Software Engineer, and Andrew Carroll, Product Lead, Genomics The combination of the environment an individual experiences and their genetic predispositions determines the majority of their risk...
We need to bring consent to AI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This week’s big news is that Geoffrey...
Elon Musk’s Twitter CEO pick Linda Yaccarino leaving NBCUniversal ‘effective immediately’
NBCUniversal announced Friday that its head of advertising, Linda Yaccarino, is leaving her post “effectively immediately” as the long-tenured executive reportedly engages in advanced talks with Elon Musk to take...
Everything Google Announced at I/O 2023
The opening keynote address of the Google I/O developer conference today was stuffed with announcements of new devices and AI-powered features coming to familiar software tools. The company leaned hard...
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Using reflections to see the world from new points of view
As a car travels along a narrow city street, reflections off the glossy paint or side mirrors of parked vehicles can help the driver glimpse things that would otherwise be...
Google at ICLR 2023
Posted by Catherine Armato, Program Manager, Google The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2023) is being held this week as a hybrid event in Kigali, Rwanda. We are...
Video: Geoffrey Hinton talks about the “existential threat” of AI
Deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton announced on Monday that he was stepping down from his role as a Google AI researcher after a decade with the company. He says he...
Elon Musk confirms Linda Yaccarino as next Twitter CEO
Elon Musk confirmed Friday that he has tapped former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino as the next CEO of Twitter, concluding a months-long search for a successor to lead the...
The Surprising Synergy Between Acupuncture and AI
I used to fall asleep at night with needles in my face. One needle shallowly planted in the inner corners of each eyebrow, one per temple, one in the middle...
Inaugural J-WAFS Grand Challenge aims to develop enhanced crop variants and move them from lab to land
According to MIT’s charter, established in 1861, part of the Institute’s mission is to advance the “development and practical application of science in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce.”...
IndoorSim-to-OutdoorReal: Learning to navigate outdoors without any outdoor experience
Posted by Joanne Truong, Student Researcher, and Wenhao Yu, Research Scientist, Robotics at Google Teaching mobile robots to navigate in complex outdoor environments is critical to real-world applications, such as...
Google is throwing generative AI at everything
Google is stuffing powerful new AI tools into tons of its existing products and launching a slew of new ones, including a coding assistant, it announced at its annual I/O...
Who is Linda Yaccarino, Elon Musk’s Twitter CEO pick?
Linda Yaccarino has been friendlier with Elon Musk than most ad executives — and as Twitter’s new CEO it’s her job to convince colleagues across the industry to do business...
Spotify Has an AI Music Problem—but Bots Love It
If a song is created by artificial intelligence and listened to by a bot, was it even heard at all? It’s a problem music-streaming companies now face as generative AI is...
