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Tech Xplore / Bias in AI amplifies our own biases, finds study
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people who use that AI to become more biased themselves, finds a new study by UCL researchers.
Tech Xplore / Engineers grow 'high-rise' 3D chips, enabling more efficient AI hardware
The electronics industry is approaching a limit to the number of transistors that can be packed onto the surface of a computer chip. So, chip manufacturers are looking to build up rather than out.
Tech Xplore / Hydrogen from waste: Bio-electrochemical cell design cuts power loss for large-scale implementation
A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in clean energy technology. The team has successfully enhanced a crucial component of a bio-electrochemical cell, enabling more efficient hydrogen production from microorganisms ...
Tech Xplore / New knit haptic sleeve simulates realistic touch
Wearable haptic devices, which provide touch-based feedback, can provide more realistic experiences in virtual reality, assist with rehabilitation, and create new opportunities for silent communication. Currently, most of ...
Tech Xplore / Harnessing corrosion: Scientists transform dealloying into sustainable lightweight alloy design
Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials (MPI-SusMat) researchers have transformed dealloying—traditionally seen as a corrosive, destructive process—into a groundbreaking method for creating lightweight, high-strength ...
Tech Xplore / Human-like artificial intelligence may face greater blame for moral violations
In a new study, participants tended to assign greater blame to artificial intelligences (AIs) involved in real-world moral transgressions when they perceived the AIs as having more human-like minds. Minjoo Joo of Sookmyung ...
Tech Xplore / Training solar panels to dance with the wind: AI-driven solution enhances resilience
Solar power is currently the fastest growing energy sector worldwide. Solar photovoltaic power plants convert sunlight into electricity and their vast potential for producing clean, renewable energy make solar power a cornerstone ...
Tech Xplore / Low-cost polymer boosts high-density data storage performance and sustainability
A new material for high density data storage can be erased and recycled in a more efficient and sustainable way, providing a potential alternative to hard disk drives, solid-state drives and flash memory in the future.
Tech Xplore / AI models adjust personality test answers to appear more likable, study finds
Most major large language models (LLMs) can quickly tell when they are being given a personality test and will tweak their responses to provide more socially desirable results—a finding with implications for any study using ...
Tech Xplore / Study reveals AI chatbots can detect race, but racial bias reduces response empathy
With the cover of anonymity and the company of strangers, the appeal of the digital world is growing as a place to seek out mental health support. This phenomenon is buoyed by the fact that more than 150 million people in ...
Tech Xplore / Harnessing spin: New electrocatalysts could transform hydrogen production efficiency
Electrocatalytic water splitting, a process that entails breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen, is a promising approach to produce clean hydrogen for fuel cells, which could in turn be used to power large electric ...
Tech Xplore / Zero-shot strategy enables robots to traverse complex environments without extra sensors or rough terrain training
Two roboticists from the University of Leeds and University College London have developed a framework that enables robots to traverse complex terrain without extra sensors or prior rough terrain training. Joseph Humphreys ...