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Wimbledon tennis tournament replaces line judges with technology in break with tradition

Wimbledon organizers said the decision to adopt live electronic line calling was made following extensive testing at the 2024 tournament

October 9, 2024
Wimbledon tennis tournament replaces line judges with technology in break with tradition
Forget chat. AI that can hear, see, and click is already here.

Multimodal generative content has also become markedly better in a very short time...The way we interact with AI systems is also changing, becoming less reliant on text

October 8, 2024
Forget chat. AI that can hear, see, and click is already here.
Some doctors are using public AI chatbots like ChatGPT in clinical decisions. Is it safe?

76% of respondents reported using general-purpose LLMs in clinical decision-making…More than 60% of physicians reported using LLMs like ChatGPT to check drug interactions, while more than half use them for diagnosis support. Nearly half use them to generate clinical documentation, and more than 40% use them for treatment planning. Seventy percent use them for patient education and literature search.

October 7, 2024
Some doctors are using public AI chatbots like ChatGPT in clinical decisions. Is it safe?
Qualcomm's AI Orchestrator aims to bring personalized AI assistants to your devices Qualcomm

Qualcomm says the software will act as a go-between for personal information, apps, and on-device AI models. It's designed to combine data like favorite foods, workout routines, and frequent contacts with generative AI assistants to provide tailored responses and actions.

October 7, 2024
Qualcomm's AI Orchestrator aims to bring personalized AI assistants to your devices Qualcomm
This Homemade Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t

British Mountain Rescue workers have developed an automated drone system that can scour a landscape far quicker and more thoroughly than human eyes

October 7, 2024
This Homemade Drone Software Finds People When Search and Rescue Teams Can’t
AI-generated images can teach robots how to act

Gen AI models aren’t just good for creating pictures—they can be fine-tuned to generate useful robot training data, too.

October 3, 2024
AI-generated images can teach robots how to act
Four-legged robot learns to climb ladders

...says the combined system had a 90% success rate navigating ladder angles in the 70- to 90-degree range.

October 2, 2024
Four-legged robot learns to climb ladders
DeepMind and BioNTech build AI lab assistants for scientific research

…the tools that DeepMind was building could suggest and design experiments based on a given hypothesis and give scientists a probabilistic view on a proposed experiment's potential success or failure.

October 2, 2024
DeepMind and BioNTech build AI lab assistants for scientific research
‘In awe’: scientists impressed by latest ChatGPT model o1

The chatbot excels at science, beating PhDs on a hard science test. But it might ‘hallucinate’ more than its predecessors.

October 1, 2024
‘In awe’: scientists impressed by latest ChatGPT model o1
The coolest thing about smart glasses is not the AR. It’s the AI.

…notes that the most impressive part of Meta’s Orion demo was when he looked at a set of ingredients and the glasses told him what they were and how to make a smoothie out of them.

October 1, 2024
The coolest thing about smart glasses is not the AR. It’s the AI.