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In simulated life-or-death decisions, about two-thirds of people in a UC Merced study allowed a robot to change their minds when it disagreed with them—an alarming display of excessive trust in artificial intelligence, researchers said.This […]

Virtual reality (VR) video games that combine screen time with exercise are a great way to get fit, but game designers face a major challenge—like with regular exercise, adherence to “exergames” is low, with most […]

A new study has found that intelligence, in the form of general cognitive abilities such as perception, thinking and remembering, is more important than hitherto thought at predicting a person’s ability to complete common tasks […]

Facial recognition is a critical part of self-image and social interactions. In an era of advanced digital technology, we face intriguing questions about communication and identity. How does altering our facial identity affect our sense […]

A combined team of roboticists from MIT and the University of California, San Diego, has developed a new type of remote control for robots called Open-TeleVision that allows for VR-type control. The team has posted […]

A study published in the journal Science Advances finds that AI enhances creativity by boosting the novelty of story ideas as well as the ‘usefulness’ of stories—their ability to engage the target audience and potential […]

While the sports industry continually improves spectators’ viewing experience at home, some problems remain unsolved. One such issue for soccer fans is cameramen accidentally appearing in each other’s shots on live broadcasts. These occurrences not […]

Apple on Monday unveiled “Apple Intelligence,” its suite of new AI features for its coveted devices—and a partnership with OpenAI—as it seeks to catch up to rivals racing ahead on adopting the white-hot technology.This article […]

A team of AI researchers with members from several institutions in the U.S. and KASIKORN Labs, in Thailand, has built an AI-based chatbot that allows users to chat with a potential version of their future […]

A team of computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians and cognitive scientists, led by the University of Cambridge, have developed an open-source evaluation platform called CheckMate, which allows human users to interact with and evaluate the performance […]