by Susan Keown | Dec 3, 2022 | ScienceWire
Engineers are working on robots that can carry out surgical procedures without the direct control of a surgeon, writes James Gaines (@the_jmgaines) for Knowable Magazine. Total autonomy may be a long ways off, however, given the vast biological complexity of the...
by Susan Keown | Sep 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
In a four-part series for TechCrunch, Mark Harris (@meharris) delves into Nuro, an autonomous, unoccupied delivery vehicle startup. Our journey with Harris’ in-depth reporting begins at Google, where its founders once worked. Then, we travel through the thicket of...
by Susan Keown | Jul 6, 2021 | ScienceWire
A new deep learning method, writes Sarah McQuate (@potassiumwhale) for UW News, can turn a photo of flowing water, smoke or clouds into an endlessly looping, real-looking video. The University of Washington researchers say that by adding more visual information into...
by Susan Keown | May 17, 2021 | ScienceWire
While deepfake videos — AI-fabricated video footage that looks real to an untrained eye — are more well-known, Richard Yonck (@ryonck) explains in GeekWire that faked maps and location data also pose serious risks by abetting espionage and propaganda (and, on the...
by Mark Harris | Apr 21, 2021 | Past Events
Telling Stories: on culturally response Artificial Intelligence Member event (online) – March 18 2021 New technologies often export the assumptions, experiences, and values of their developers, assumptions that do not always carry over to different world views....
