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Bird flu has been spreading in dairy cows in the US—and the scale of the spread is likely to be far worse than it looks. In addition, 14 human cases have been reported in the US since March. Both are worrying developments, say virologists, who fear that the country’s meager response to the virus is… Read more

A startup says shipping meltwater from Greenland’s glaciers internationally will boost the local economy and could help ease water pressures in arid regions—but what does that actually mean for the world? Read more

Protests against online gaming company Evolution have gone to extremes in Europe—and are reverberating in the US. Read more

Music generation has evolved significantly, integrating vocal and instrumental tracks into cohesive compositions. Pioneering works like Jukebox demonstrated end-to-end generation of vocal music, matching input lyrics, artist styles, and genres. AI-driven applications now enable on-demand creation using natural language prompts, making music generation more accessible. The field encompasses symbolic domain and audio domain generation, each… Read more

In today’s digital age, we are inundated with vast amounts of text content from various sources, including news articles, research papers, social media posts, and more. This unstructured text data, such as natural language text, is not organized in a structured format like databases. This makes it challenging to process and analyze using traditional data… Read more

A group that includes sex workers, sex tech businesses, and sex educators has demanded a seat at the table to shape AI regulations that they say could lead to discrimination against them. Read more

Julie Ragland fue CIO de la empresa de fabricación de vehículos Navistar, y ha ocupado puestos de liderazgo de TI en Adient y Johnson Controls. Para Ragland, que también forma parte de varios consejos de administración de agencias estatales y organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro, una de las mayores responsabilidades de los consejos de administración… Read more

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) faces a critical challenge due to the instability caused by “churn” during training. Churn refers to unpredictable changes in the output of neural networks for states that are not included in the training batch. This problem is particularly troublesome in reinforcement learning (RL) because of its inherently non-stationary nature, where policies… Read more

A volte le tecnologie più promettenti sono proprio davanti ai nostri occhi: basta riconoscere il valore aziendale insito nel loro utilizzo. Per avere un’idea delle più promettenti che le aziende incontreranno nel corso dei prossimi mesi, abbiamo intervistato una serie di leader IT chiedendo loro quali pensano che siano i sistemi che potranno aiutare le… Read more

A UN report proposes that the organization take a much more active role in the monitoring and oversight of AI. Read more