Cracking the code: How a 'prediction machine' is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our goal was to reconstruct the highly fragmentary text of the Singapore Stone, ...
Tech Xplore

Human brain and AI speech recognition decode speech in similar step-by-step stages, study finds

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process human speech in different languages. The extent to which these models replicate ...
Phys.org

What primate faces reveal about empathy: Humans mirror emotions across species

The expressions consisted of a play face, a threat display, and a neutral expression. While the participants were watching the videos, their own facial expressions were filmed using webcams. The ...
IEEE

Enhancing Emotion Detection in Social Media with a Generative AI Approach to Analyzing Twitter Reviews

Abstract: This study presents an automated approach to emotion detection and classification in informal text using SpaCy, with a focus on social media content such as tweets. The inherent brevity and ...
Futurism

Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care

When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel that money into sleek, AI-powered smart glasses instead. Emboldened by the product’s early ...
The Verge

Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted

An internal memo reviewed by The New York Times says Meta is considering launching the feature ‘during a dynamic political environment.’ An internal memo reviewed by The New York Times says Meta is ...
Harvard Medical School

AI-generated text is overwhelming institutions – setting off a no-win ‘arms race’ with AI detector

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders discuss media outlets (including literary magazines and scientific journals) being inundated with a high volume of AI-generated text, swamping traditional editorial ...
Reuters

Musk says steps to stop Russia from using Starlink seem to have worked

Feb 1 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Sunday that moves by his SpaceX company to stop the 'unauthorized' use by Russia of its internet system Starlink seemed to have worked, while Kyiv's defence chief ...
Reuters

Deezer licenses AI music detection tool to French royalty agency Sacem, plans wider rollout

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Music streaming platform Deezer (DEEZR.PA), opens new tab has licensed its artificial intelligence-detection technology to France's royalty agency Sacem in a landmark commercial ...
Wired

ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is leveraging Palantir’s generative artificial intelligence tools to sort and summarize immigration enforcement tips from its public submission form, ...
Ars Technica

Meet Veronika, the tool-using cow

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...
Wired

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...