Field: AI

Primer’s new AI tools are expert readers, capable of analyzing long bodies of text far faster — and more accurately — than humans can.

Algorithms are learning to guess what you'll do next by analyzing shows like "The Office."

Seoul is deploying an AI-powered camera system designed to predict suicide attempts at bridges and send rescuers to help people in distress.

Toyota’s cleaning robot has demonstrated new skills, revealing an ability to detect clear objects and snap perfect selfies.

McDonald's just rolled out a voice recognition system at 10 drive-thrus in Chicago.

AI startup Pactum is trying to save big companies millions with AI negotiation.

While looking for drugs to potentially fight Alzheimer’s, a high school researcher's AI did “comically” bad, until he thought of it as a search engine.

At a smart farm in Australia, robots and AI will do all the manual labor, potentially foreshadowing agriculture’s "hands-free" future.

AI in sports has taken off in recent years. Now, Liverpool and DeepMind are teaming up to see how AI may impact the world’s most popular sport.

Can we teach AI sarcasm? Should we?

A new AI dubbing tech called TrueSync matches actors’ mouths with recorded dialogue to make watching a movie in an unknown language feel less jarring.

Google’s Project Starline is a new 3D video chat technology designed to make online communication feel more like real life.

Monarch Tractor’s all-electric, self-driving tractor could save farmers money, while also benefiting the environment.

Researchers build AI to predict dementia and mild cognitive impairment in older drivers based on driving data.

Mind Bank Ai wants to create a “personal digital twin” of you to forever be around. Is AI eternity around the corner?

To highlight the problem of “deepfake geography,” University of Washington researchers built AIs to create and detect the fake satellite images.

This robot’s thought process isn’t a secret — researchers gave the AI the ability to share its internal monologue with humans.

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has made history on Mars, achieving the first controlled flight on another planet.

A pair of robot legs were able to teach themselves to walk thanks to a unique twist on reinforcement learning, a common AI training technique.

You can now buy a reconstructed piece of lost art discovered lurking beneath a famous Picasso painting.

A team of researchers has developed an algorithm to measure pulse and respiration rate during a telehealth appointment using your device’s camera.

A military school recently used Spot, a robot dog developed by Boston Dynamics, during combat training exercises.

Food waste makes up nearly a quarter of landfill material. A new startup aims to change that by automating the process of trucking produce with artificial intelligence.

Boston Dynamics’ second commercial offering is a warehouse robot named Stretch that can lift and move 800, 50-pound boxes every hour.

Functional ultrasound tech can be used to map the brain activity of monkeys, suggesting it might be useful for future brain-machine interfaces.

IBM’s Project Debater is trained to quickly craft well-researched arguments — and the AI debater could one day improve your decision making.

An AI backpack powered by Intel technology “sees” for visually impaired people, letting them know about any potential obstacles in their path.

In just a few minutes, Hour One can produce a digital twin of anyone, capturing their likeness, expressions, and voice. 

For SXSW’s AI Painting Project, a robot arm was trained to generate paintings based on given concepts and using a limited number of brushstrokes.

University at Buffalo researchers have created a tool capable of spotting deepfakes with 94% accuracy. The secret’s in the eyes.

Emirates Team New Zealand designed one of the fastest America's Cup boats with the help of artificial intelligence.

Sophia the robot has created digital art that will be linked to an NFT and sold — making her the latest to join the art world’s current craze.

Dyret is a shape-shifting quadruped robot that can change the length of its legs. This helps it walk across different terrains or account for any injuries.

MIT trained an AI to generate photorealistic holograms in milliseconds using just the processing power of a smartphone.

University of Washington researchers have transformed a smart speaker into a contactless heart rhythm monitor.

Intel’s new athlete tracking platform, 3DAT, can deliver performance insights without the use of potentially cumbersome sensors.

A new deepfake tool called Deep Nostalgia generates brief animations of faces in still photographs, breathing life into people’s old family portraits.

The Tom Cruise deepfake featured in a series of TikToks that went viral was created by a professional VFX artist.

Toyota has broken ground on Woven City, a futuristic city prototype where the technologies of tomorrow can be tested en masse.

Maia is a chess AI designed to play like you, not crush you. Predicting the most human decisions may pave the way for AI to train and work with us.

Scientists created an intelligent material that acts as a brain by physically changing when it learns. This is an important step toward achieving a "quantum brain.”

Google’s new online tool lets you experience synesthesia like the abstract artist Vasily Kandinsky, who could hear colors and see sounds.

The Virti platform lets doctors and med students interact with computer-generated virtual patients so they can improve their bedside manner.

Researchers taught an AI to make artificial genomes, which could advance genetic research without compromising the privacy of individuals.

Using face-swapping AI, the NFL has created a Super Bowl ad in which iconic coach Vince Lombardi delivers a message of unity 50 years after his death.

Lyme disease spreads via infected ticks, some of whom pick it up from birds. But which birds may carry the disease to new places?

Hanson Robotics is going to begin mass-producing Sophia the robot in 2021, making the social robot available to help combat the pandemic.

An AI trained to spot signs of fresh craters on Mars in photos of the Martian surface has already discovered dozens of new impacts.

A new AI-based technique can make a nearly 100% accurate prostate cancer diagnosis from a urine sample, potentially saving patients from unneeded biopsies.

Self-driving cars get all the love, but autonomous trucks are already hitting the road, with a “driver-out” demonstration scheduled for 2021.

A Columbia University study suggests that empathy between robots may be possible — and the skill could make the bots more useful to humans.

The EvoWalk wearable uses electrical stimulation, sensors, and AI to combat foot drop, a condition commonly linked to MS and strokes.

OpenAI's two new machine learning algorithms improve computer vision and can use text cues to draw unique and often offbeat images.

AMP Robotics has developed a recycling robot that uses AI to sort recyclables twice as quickly as humans can.

Generative adversarial networks are the scary AI producing deepfakes. But they have other uses too, and physicists are starting to harness their power.

Capable of creating incredibly realistic false data — most infamously of famous people — deepfakes are a powerful tool.

Researchers have created an optical sensor, designed to mimic the human eye. The team says this is a major breakthrough in neuromorphic computing

A modified version of Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot could be the ideal Mars rover for exploring caves and other underground structures.

Genetic counseling services are in high demand. Now, chatbots are providing some of those services, helping patients navigate DNA testing.

The future of AI looks promising, but it doesn’t come without risks. How can we keep the technology in check, before it outsmarts us?

Deep learning vs. machine learning AI: what’s the difference?

On December 16, 2020, the Air Force flew an AI co-pilot on a U-2 spy plane. This is the first time that the Air Force completed a military flight with AI.

Four robot dogs are heading to a Florida Air Force base to serve as security patrol, marking the U.S. military’s first full-time deployment of a robot dog.

Qwake Technologies’ C-Thru is a heads up display that combines AI, augmented reality, and thermal imaging to help firefighters battle blazes.

Loon is using a new AI navigation system trained via reinforcement learning to control its fleet of internet-beaming balloons in Kenya.

MIT has developed an AI capable of robot design — all you need to do is tell RoboGrammar the bot’s goal and the available body parts.

Researchers are using artificial intelligence and a supercomputer to count all the trees on the planet, via imaging from space.

A protein’s structure is crucial to its function. Predicting how a protein will fold was a challenge decades in the making — and answered by DeepMind.

An award-winning at-home breast cancer screening device, called the Blue Box, could one day replace uncomfortable mammograms.

Google’s new Tree Canopy Lab uses AI and aerial photography to combat the urban heat island effect by showing a city exactly where it could use more trees.

A prescription-only watch that treats nightmare disorder is the latest in a growing subset of health technologies called prescription digital therapeutics.

Daniel Robinson, a veteran F-22 pilot, flew a real aircraft and battled an AI virtual fighter in a world's first.

MIT has developed an AI that can detect asymptomatic COVID-19 infections from the sound of a person’s forced-cough with incredible accuracy.

The creators of South Park have released a web show, Sassy Justice, that makes use of incredibly realistic deepfakes.

The dog-inspired SPOT framework effectively trains an AI robot more quickly than other reinforcement learning methods.

An algorithm that can identify the closest living relatives of lost languages could help linguists unlock the meaning of ancient texts.

DoNotPay’s robot lawyer can now help people write and send letters to inmates without worrying about violating a facility’s mail rules.

Miso Robotics is making Flippy ROAR available for $30,000 in the hopes the robot cook will help the restaurant industry recover from the pandemic.

Waymo One has relaunched, and this time, all users can ride in cars without safety drivers.

Toyota built a cleaning robot that descends from a kitchen's ceiling as an example of the kind of tech that might one day support Earth’s aging population.

In the new VR movie “Agence,” artificially intelligent characters respond to the actions of the viewer in unpredictable ways.

AIs design entire settlements in an annual Minecraft competition that could reveal uses for the tech in real-world urban planning.

Google introduced an artificial neural network that can locate whales in the ocean. They want to use it to keep the animals safe from ships.

The new Mayflower, set to traverse the Atlantic in 2021, won’t bear any pilgrims. It’s a robot boat, sailing sailor-free.

Tech requires raw material, and some lays at the bottom of the sea. Could underwater robots be the future of deep sea mining?

By predicting future preeclampsia risk, the AI might save the lives of mothers and their babies.

Prime Air, Amazon’s drone delivery service, has secured a key FAA certification, clearing it for the next phase of testing in the U.S.

IBM’s new online platform, RoboRXN, combines artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and robotics to automate the COVID-19 drug development process.

During a livestream, CEO Elon Musk presented the latest Neuralink brain implant, as well as what he claimed were several pig recipients of the device.

Facebook's AI lab has released new tools for its embodied AI training platform, including one to train a home robot to respond to sounds.

Facebook’s facial recognition AI will turn ordinary farm equipment into precision agriculture machines by training it to spot the weeds among the crops.

A new algorithm can detect diabetes using data collected by a smartphone’s camera, offering a way to address the problem of undiagnosed diabetes.

Smart traffic lights by startup NoTraffic use AI to improve the flow of traffic in cities, minimizing carbon emissions and delays for first responders.

Sparta Science has developed an AI-powered force plate system that prevents injuries among athletes and soldiers by predicting their likelihood.

A smart robot that uses neuromorphic computing, may one day “think” like humans.

Emotion-detecting technology could be the next frontier of personalization. But what does this mean for privacy?

New “predictive touch” tech could help prevent distracted driving by limiting the amount of time drivers spend interacting with vehicle displays.

OpenAI’s GPT-3 is currently the talk of Twitter. The powerful language generator is writing everything from sci-fi to code.

End-of-life and palliative care discussions with patients are crucial but difficult. Can AI help?

Researchers are training algorithms to help predict the severity of COVID-19. But is AI ready for COVID-19?