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MIT Researchers Test Autonomous Drones Using VR Training Grounds

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Unfortunately, training high-tech, fast-moving machines to automatically detect and avoid physical objects isn’t exactly a safe, or cheap process. You can’t learn in that environment. It’s something we programmed it to do in the virtual environment, by making mistakes, falling apart, and learning.

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This AI Can Tell if You Have Covid-19 Just by Listening to Your Cough

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Thankfully, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have figured out a way to gauge whether a person has covid-19 just from the sound of their cough , so I may… Read more. It feels like whenever I cough these days it triggers a mini-panic attack that I promptly try to quash with a steady stream of chamomile tea.

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Facebook Acquires FacioMetrics To Add ‘Fun Effects’ To Photos and Videos

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Users of FacioMetrics’ technology span the academic and tech industry worlds and include Lightricks, Anki, Meograph, University of Kentucky, Carnegie Mellon University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a “leading social networking company” — perhaps Facebook?

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MIT Accelerator Play Labs Announces Class of 13 AR/VR Startups

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Play Labs , a summer accelerator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announced its first batch of 13 startups that are developing augmented reality and virtual reality technology. Empathy Box: The Myth Machine is a first-person mystery-adventure set in the weird, magical world of tech start-ups.

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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Officially Announced

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and deep learning, virtual reality and self driving vehicles. Topics include deep learning and AI, data center and cloud computing, analytics, healthcare, self-driving and AI cars, life sciences, defense, virtual and augmented reality, computer and machine vision, smart cities, robotics and IoT.

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The Hot New Job That Pays Six Figures: AI Prompt Engineering

Bernard Marr

Learning to get the best results from generative AI is a skill that needs to be learned and honed, just like becoming professionally adept in any other computer software. How Do I Learn Prompt Engineering? And how do we make sure our work stands out above that of other people and creates a competitive edge for our businesses?

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Will Generative AI Help Us Solve The Climate Crisis (Or Will It Make It Worse)?

Bernard Marr

You might be surprised to learn that AI is already proving to be a powerful weapon in the fight against climate change. ChatGPT (And Friends) Are Energy Guzzlers Back in 2019, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst decided to look into the carbon footprint of large AI models – of the sort that power today’s tools like ChatGPT.

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