News on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning The latest news on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Wimbledon’s electronic line-calling system shows that we still can’t replace human judgmenton July 10, 2025 at 7:30 pm
The Wimbledon tennis tournament in 2025 has brought us familiar doses of scorching sunshine and pouring rain, British hopes and despair, and the usual queues, strawberries and on-court stardust. One major difference with this year’s tournament, however, has been the notable absence of human line judges for the first time in 147 […]
- EU unveils AI code of practice to help businesses comply with bloc’s ruleson July 10, 2025 at 6:00 pm
The European Union on Thursday released a code of practice on general purpose artificial intelligence to help thousands of businesses in the 27-nation bloc using the technology comply with the bloc’s landmark AI rule book.
- Tool devised for detecting AI that scores high on accuracy, low on false accusationson July 10, 2025 at 3:42 pm
Detecting writing via artificial intelligence is a tricky dance: Doing it right means being effective at identifying it while being careful not to falsely accuse a human of employing it. And few tools strike the right balance.
- From robotic trucks to smart bins: How technology is helping cities sort their waste problemon July 10, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Since early January 2025, residents of Birmingham in the UK have been caught in the dispute between the city council and the Unite union over pay, terms and conditions for waste and recycling collectors. The latest attempt at talks broke down in acrimony.
- Humanoid robot says not aiming to ‘replace human artists’on July 10, 2025 at 8:41 am
When successful artist Ai-Da unveiled a new portrait of King Charles this week, the humanoid robot described what inspired the layered and complex piece, and insisted it had no plans to “replace” humans.
- Formal guidelines can enable AI to precisely maneuver and position medical needleson July 9, 2025 at 7:06 pm
Imagine a physician attempting to reach a cancerous nodule deep within a patient’s lung—a target the size of a pea, hidden behind a maze of critical blood vessels and airways that shift with every breath. Straying one millimeter off course could puncture a major artery, and falling short could mean missing the cancer entirely, […]
- How LinkedIn’s algorithm can help us find new uses for existing medicineson July 9, 2025 at 6:10 pm
When you log onto LinkedIn, you’re normally presented with suggestions to connect with people you know, either because you went to the same university as them, or worked in the same company or industry.
- Autonomous gallbladder removal: Robot performs first realistic surgery without human helpon July 9, 2025 at 6:00 pm
A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, responded to and learned from voice commands from the team—like a novice surgeon working with a mentor.
- Humanoid robots in the operating room could address surgery delays and staff shortageson July 9, 2025 at 6:00 pm
As waiting rooms fill up, doctors get increasingly burned out, and surgeries take longer to schedule and more get canceled, humanoid surgical robots offer a solution. That’s the argument that UC San Diego robotics expert Michael Yip makes in a perspective piece in Science Robotics.
- HUSH: Holistic panoramic 3D scene understanding using spherical harmonicson July 9, 2025 at 5:20 pm
An advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been developed that can extract three-dimensional (3D) spatial structure and object information within indoor environments using just a single 360-degree panoramic photograph. This breakthrough is expected to significantly impact fields requiring precise spatial understanding, […]
