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Practical ethics for the AI age

Asking if AI systems are ethical is not enough. The EU-backed project AIOLIA looks deeper into what they are doing to the people who use them in order to provide concrete ethics guidelines AI is here to stay, and it is affecting the way we think and behave, while also raising many challenging questions. Should…

AI Ethics, AIOLIA, Articial Intelligence, European Union, human oversight, responsible AI

Making technology more inclusive

Leveraging artificial intelligence and haptic solutions, researchers aim to make digital devices and content more accessible to the visually impaired Digital technology seems to have permeated nearly every aspect of our lives, radically transforming how we connect, work and interact. But this isn’t the case for everyone. Because digital devices rely almost exclusively on visual…

From prosthetics to paper and AI: Europe’s innovation summit backs new tech

Europe has the science. Now it needs the scale. An EU-backed start-up summit is trying to close that gap In a conference space at the edge of Brussels, networking reaches a crescendo as a DJ plays music in the background. On the floor, everyone is showcasing their work – from semiconductor chips to advanced renewable…

Transparent, ethical AI tools making sense of massive and heterogeneous data

Crime is rapidly moving online. An EU-funded project built accurate, human-centric, unbiased AI tools to help investigators turn massive digital evidence into vital clues Criminal activity has drastically changed today – it is digital, borderless and leaves behind massive trails of information. Modern investigations no longer rely on physical evidence alone. Instead, police must routinely…

artificial intelligence, criminal investigations, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, digital security, Ethical AI

Art Leaves the Museum to Embrace People

Artificial Intelligence and new digital experiences are transforming culture into something closer, emotional and shareable, bringing masterpieces and historical heritage nearer to an increasingly connected society For centuries, art waited in silence. It lived behind the thick walls of museums, protected by distance, solemnity and sometimes even intimidation. Great masterpieces belonged to history, but not…

artificial intelligence, cultural heritage, digital art, Digital Culture, immersive experiences, museums

New ‘universal vaccine’ technology could protect us from future virus outbreaks

A Cambridge-led team has developed a way to engineer better vaccines that could provide broad protection from thousands of variants of viruses - such as coronaviruses or Ebola - in a single vaccine. This represents a fundamental new vaccine technology that could prevent future pandemics before they begin The first human clinical trial of a…

Bridging real human movement with digital technology

MIT.nano Immersion Lab collaborates with Emerson College students to advance the art of virtual production “Avatar,” the highest-grossing film of all time, took viewers to a new world, Pandora, and it advanced filmmaking to its own new world: developing the field of virtual production. Leveraging a wide range of technologies such as performance capture, LED…

digital storytelling, film education, Inmersive technology, MIT, Motion Capture, virtual production

Bridging real human movement with digital technology

digital storytelling, film education, immersive technology, MIT, Motion Capture, virtual production

Europe and Japan push supercomputing boundaries

From predicting climate change to developing new medicines, supercomputers underpin modern science. Europe and Japan are now working together to make them even more powerful and reliable Stepping inside a supercomputer facility is usually an overwhelming experience. These vast machines contain hundreds of thousands of processors working together to perform calculations far beyond the reach of…

artificial intelligence, Europe, Japan, research, Science, supercomputing

AI not yet good enough to mark university essays, rewarding ‘style over substance’

Top AI systems show bias towards rewarding overly complex prose styles and only match human examiners for grade bands around half the time, research finds Researchers have used top Generative AI models to grade hundreds of undergraduate essays and found that AI only matched human-awarded degree classification around half the time, with AI often failing to assess the best and worst submissions accurately. A University of Cambridge-led…