News on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

  • ChatGPT is biased against resumes with credentials that imply a disability—but it can improve
    on June 22, 2024 at 4:57 pm

    While seeking research internships last year, University of Washington graduate student Kate Glazko noticed recruiters posting online that they'd used OpenAI's ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence tools to summarize resumes and rank candidates. Automated screening has been commonplace in hiring for decades. Yet Glazko, a doctoral student in the UW's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, studies how generative AI can replicate and amplify real-world biases—such as those against disabled people. How might such a system, she wondered, rank resumes that implied someone had a disability?

  • How Nvidia became an AI giant
    on June 22, 2024 at 7:50 am

    It all started at a Denny's in San Jose in 1993. Three engineers—Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem—gathered at the diner in what is now the heart of Silicon Valley to discuss building a computer chip that would make graphics for video games faster and more realistic. That conversation, and the ones that followed, led to the founding of Nvidia, the tech company that soared through the ranks of the stock market to briefly top Microsoft as the most valuable company in the S&P 500 this week.

  • Model combines physical parameters and machine learning to predict storm tides
    on June 21, 2024 at 4:35 pm

    Predicting extreme events is essential to the preparation and protection of vulnerable regions, especially at a time of climate change. The city of Santos on the coast of São Paulo state (Brazil) is Latin America's largest port and has been the focus for significant case studies, not least because of the storm surges that threaten its infrastructure and the local ecosystems.

  • Test project uses AI system to improve transit accessibility in Chattanooga
    on June 21, 2024 at 3:10 pm

    Vanderbilt researchers have developed an innovative software system incorporating artificial intelligence that aims to improve the efficiency of public transportation for individuals with special needs.

  • How AI can keep cybersecurity analysts from drowning in a sea of data
    on June 21, 2024 at 3:10 pm

    As organizations increasingly rely on networks, online platforms, data and technology, the risks associated with data breaches and privacy violations are more severe than ever. Couple this with the escalating frequency and sophistication of cyber threats and it becomes clear that fortifying cybersecurity defenses has never been more important.

  • Stand-up comedians test ability of LLMs to write jokes
    on June 21, 2024 at 12:45 pm

    A small team of AI researchers at Google's DeepMind project has found that LLMs are not very good at writing jokes that are funny. They asked stand-up comedians to use LLMs to write a stand-up routine for them and posted their findings on the arXiv preprint server.

  • Student builds AI tool to revitalize endangered Indigenous language
    on June 21, 2024 at 9:51 am

    Jared Coleman, who recently earned his Ph.D. in computer science, and his supervisor, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, are bound by a shared love of languages—both human and computer.

  • New scaling law demonstrates how AI copes with changing categories
    on June 20, 2024 at 7:10 pm

    The real world possesses many challenges for AI missions. One of those challenges is the requirement that machines will be able to recognize and quickly learn new objects which they have not seen before. An AI robust to changes will be of great use in quickly adapting to a dynamic reality, be it a robot recognizing new products at a grocery store or a self-driving car interacting with new road signs or objects around it.

  • AI system successfully operates 16-ton forest machine
    on June 20, 2024 at 5:18 pm

    For the first time, scientists have succeeded in creating a self-driving forest machine controlled by artificial intelligence. In a study at Umeå University, an AI system was developed that can operate a 16-ton machine without human intervention.

  • New success criteria system takes guess work out of large-scale construction projects
    on June 20, 2024 at 5:04 pm

    Medium and large-scale construction projects will have a better chance of success if they are able to adhere to a set of success criteria, new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) found.