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Artificial Intelligence

The latest developments in machine learning, embedded intelligent systems, and medical AI
Artificial IntelligenceTopicMagazineTypeFeatureMarch 2023

How Duolingo’s AI Learns What You Need to Learn

The AI that powers the language-learning app today could disrupt education tomorrow

9 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeNews

Protecting AI Models from “Data Poisoning”

New ways to thwart backdoor control of deep learning systems

4 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeSemiconductorsNews

Human-AI Team Ups Could Slash Chip-Development Costs

A hybrid design strategy may make the most of human intuition

4 min read
Report: Global Patent Renewal Trends—Unpicking What Survives
ComputingTopicWhitepaper

Report: Global Patent Renewal Trends—Unpicking What Survives

Unpicking what survives to better understand maintenance behaviors and unleash annuities' strategic value

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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeNews

Can Big AI Companies Make Responsible AI?

Major tech companies grapple with guidelines for artificial intelligence

3 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeNews

GPT-4 Ups the Ante in the AI Arms Race

OpenAI’s latest LLM is wildly more capable—and still sometimes a loose cannon

5 min read

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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeInterview

AI Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

MIT economist sounds warning against unregulated tech innovation

6 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeNews

Hallucinations Could Blunt ChatGPT’s Success

OpenAI says the problem’s solvable, Yann LeCun says we’ll see

4 min read

The Transistor at 75

The past, present, and future of the modern world’s most important invention
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SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureSpecial Reports

How the First Transistor Worked

A chart showing the timeline of when a transistor was invented and when it was commercialized.
SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureHistory of TechnologySpecial Reports

The Ultimate Transistor Timeline

A photo of 3 different transistors.
SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureSpecial Reports

The State of the Transistor in 3 Charts

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SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureSpecial Reports

3D-Stacked CMOS Takes Moore’s Law to New Heights

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SemiconductorsTopicDecember 2022MagazineTypeFeatureSpecial Reports

The Transistor of 2047: Expert Predictions

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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeComputingNews

Optical Algorithm Simplifies Analog AI Training

When backpropagation loses its bite, this approach may substitute

2 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeNews

OpenAI Swings the Doors Wide Open on ChatGPT

Cheap pricing has already led to a slew of AI-enabled offerings from Instacart, Shopify, and Snap

4 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeNews

200-Year-Old Math Opens Up AI’s Mysterious Black Box

Fourier analysis provides ideas on how to quickly train more accurate neural networks

4 min read

Journal Watch

The latest engineering and computer science advances in context from IEEE Spectrum and the Xplore Digital Library
TelecommunicationsTopicTypeNews

Skywalker Takes to the Sky—and Ground

2 min read
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BiomedicalTopicTypeNews

Mini Robot Enters Blood Vessels, Completes Surgery

3 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeNews

Combating Hate Speech Online With AI

2 min read
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Consumer ElectronicsTopicTypeNews

Wireless Chargers Reach for the Megahertz Range

3 min read
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EnergyTopicMagazineTypeNews

Water Heaters Have Battery Potential

3 min read
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TransportationTopicMagazineTypeNewsMarch 2023

3 Ways to Help NASA’s All-Electric Aircraft Take Off

3 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeNews

U.S. and EU Announce Plans to Develop AI Standards

The two will have to navigate thorny differences of opinion on issues like data governance, however

3 min read
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SemiconductorsTopicArtificial IntelligenceTypeComputingNews

Watch Syntiant’s 1-Milliwatt Chip Play ​Doom​

The NDP200 is meant to watch for key events and wake up bigger systems

2 min read
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The InstituteTopicArtificial IntelligenceTypeOpinion

How ChatGPT Could Revolutionize Academia

The AI chatbot could enhance learning, but also creates some challenges

3 min read
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EnergyTopicTypeWhitepaper

Small Modular Reactors: Capital Funding, Financing & Economic Viability

Download the report to learn about advancing financing to support SMRs and advanced reactors deployment

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ComputingTopicArtificial IntelligenceTypeSemiconductorsNews

AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

A 500-megawatt supercomputer is “probably too much”

2 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeNews

Combating Hate Speech Online With AI

It analyzes the context of social media posts to accurately detect hate speech

2 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeNews

Google and Microsoft Race to Unveil AI-Based Search

But both Bard and Bing Chat stumble out of the gate

5 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicTypeNews

Image Recognition Has an Income Problem

This newly available data set will help fix it

3 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicMagazineTypeNewsConsumer Electronics

Deepfakes Are Becoming a Cottage Industry

But it might be time for “deepfake” to die

4 min read
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Artificial IntelligenceTopicBiomedicalTypeNews

GPT Protein Models Speak Fluent Biology

Deep-learning language models design artificial proteins for tricky chemical reactions

3 min read
Artificial IntelligenceTopicMagazineTypeFeatureSeptember 2022

Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?

Better detection will make the oceans transparent—and perhaps doom mutually assured destruction

11 min read
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