Artificial Intelligence

Assessing unintended consequences in AI-based neurosurgical training

Virtual reality simulators can help learners improve their technical skills faster and with no risk to patients. In the field of neurosurgery, they...

Posit AI Blog: torch for tabular data

Machine learning on image-like data can be many things: fun (dogs vs. cats), societally useful (medical imaging), or societally harmful (surveillance). In comparison, tabular...

The biggest technology failures of 2023

Plastic proliferation Plastic is great. It’s strong, it’s light, and it can be pressed into just about...

5 Easy Ways Copilot Can Solve Your Work Puzzles

2023 was a year of rapid advancement in generative AI. We picked up a new vocabulary—prompting, iteration, “usefully wrong.” We reduced digital debt—that...

Combustion powers bug-sized robots to leap, lift and race

Cornell researchers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that is powered by combustion and can outrace,...

Brain image segmentation with torch

When what is not enough True, sometimes it’s vital to distinguish between different kinds of objects. Is that a car speeding towards me, in...

This vibrating weight-loss pill seems to work—in pigs

So far this “electroceutical” has only been tested in a handful of young Yorkshire pigs, but with promising results. According to a new...

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