Featured news
22 Apr 2020
Who’s a bot and who’s not
Behavioral differences between bots and humans could inform new algorithms for bot detection: Frontiers in Physics
29 news posts in Artificial intelligence
Featured news
17 Apr 2020
Artificial intelligence to enable fast-track review of COVID-19 research proposals
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to help funders identify specialists to peer-review proposals for emergency COVID-19 research has been developed. It aims to help fast-track the allocation of funding, and in turn, accelerate the scientific response to the virus.
Featured news
16 Oct 2019
Crop-boosting AI can benefit many fields
Machine learning algorithms developed to select high-yield food crops could be applied to ‘hyperspectral analysis’ in other disciplines, from astronomy to espionage; Frontiers in Plant Science
Featured news
29 Jul 2019
Artificial intelligence enables recognizing and assessing a violinist’s bow movements
A system developed by David Dalmazzo and Rafael Ramírez, members of the Music Technology Group, allows violin students to benefit from real-time accurate information about their movements when playing the instrument; Frontiers in Psychology
Featured news
31 May 2019
Magnets can help AI get closer to the efficiency of the human brain
New brain-like networks could help robots approach human-like efficiency at object recognition tasks; Frontiers in Neuroscience
Featured news
08 Mar 2019
New method uses AI to screen for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Scientists have developed a new AI tool that can screen children for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder quickly and affordably: Frontiers in Neurology
Featured news
14 Jan 2019
Computer hardware designed for 3D games could hold the key to replicating human brain
The group used graphics processing units (GPUs) to run their brain simulation software, which is already powering drones that think like insects and could help pinpoint the disease in the human brain; Frontiers in Neuroscience
Featured news
07 Jan 2019
Artificial intelligence can predict your personality — simply by tracking your eyes
A study has shown for the first time that computers can predict individuals’ personality traits from their eye movements while engaged in everyday tasks; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Featured news
24 Aug 2018
AI World Cup: Infant-trained simulated robots win ‘RoboCup’
Simulated robots trained on infant walking paths won more football (soccer) games than those trained on less varied geometric paths: Frontiers in Neurorobotics
Featured news
26 Apr 2018
Artificial intelligence tricked by optical illusion, just like humans
A study using deep neural networks suggests that predictive coding theory is the basis of illusory motion: Frontiers in Psychology
Robotics and AI
22 Sep 2017
Google Glass app helps autistic children with social interactions
Wearable technology described in Frontiers in Robotics and AI can recognize conversational prompts and provide the user with suitable responses.
Humanities
02 May 2017
The automation of art: A legal conundrum
A study in Frontiers in Digital Humanities shows how the rise of automated art opens new creative avenues, coupled with new problems for copyright protection.
Open science and peer review
06 Mar 2017
160-million Papers and Counting: The World’s Information Deluge
Academic output has exploded over the last 100 years but how can the most relevant research be found? — by Melissa Cochrane In 2009, it’s estimated there were at least 50 million research publications floating around the coves of the internet. If you printed all of them out and put them side by side, you could go all the way around the earth. Based on the recent data, however, it appears the number of publications are at least 3 times larger than previously thought, at around 160 million, and the growth rate has increased to 0.8% per month, doubling in just over 7 years. It’s clear that the scientific world is booming with information, but how do researchers find out who, what and where is relevant to their specific fields? How on earth can we navigate all this? Kicked off two years ago, Microsoft Academic is a research project inside Microsoft Research. At its core is an artificial intelligence agent that reads all academic publications on the web to learn and automatically create a massive knowledge base, going far beyond a simple keyword-matching search to provide an overall benchmark and the context of what you’re looking for. A goal of […]
Robotics and AI
11 Jun 2015
Open Access may help enlighten society on the social value of robotics and AI
There is some debate about Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) between those who believe that it would enable our digital technology to address concrete societal problems, and those who want to limit it based on ignorance and fear.