How an army of digital sleuths are using AI to fix America’s crumbling sidewalks

I’m labeling and rating sidewalks from the comfort of my own couch in Los Angeles using Project Sidewalk, an online ...

Statistical method broadens forecasts by modeling uncertainty beyond average outcomes

When it comes to statistics, we usually expect to be informed about what happens "on average." But sometimes the key ...

Can we predict deadly cliff collapses along the California coast? Scientists say it's possible

Scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that it is possible to predict a coastal landslide ...

Intricate molecular mechanisms help bacteria evade immune detection

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a novel mechanism used by the bacteria responsible for gonorrhea to evade ...
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Testing the limits of what's possible (and what isn't) with AI

When can we trust the results we get from AI, and when is learning impossible? Researchers have shown that there are some ...

Meta AI image detector fails to identify some of its own cropped AI images, Reuters analysis finds

By Hardik Vyas and Seana Davis July 10 (Reuters) - A new AI detection tool from Meta, which the tech company previewed this week alongside the launch of its image-generation model, Muse Image, failed ...

What happens when AI detectors fail? Researchers say we must be trained to spot fake AI faces

AI detectors are struggling against increasingly realistic deepfakes. Researchers say people can dramatically improve their ...