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The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has signed a contract with Knightscope, a company that produces autonomous robots for public safety purposes. Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell announced the plans to implement new technologies to enhance the safety of the city’s citizens at a press conference in Times Square.

The Turkish Navy has launched its latest amphibious assault ship, the TCG Anadolu, which boasts the ability to carry light aircraft and military drones. At 231 metres long and 32 metres wide, the ship can accommodate combat helicopters and military drones, as well as up to 94 vehicles, including 13 tanks.

An AI-generated woman named Claudia has successfully sold lewd photographs to unsuspecting Reddit users. Claudia is a 100-percent AI creation who was posted on several subreddits. Claudia’s post prompted a firestorm of users reporting it, leading a moderator for the group to post a disclaimer clarifying that AI-generated photos are not against the subreddit’s rules. The creators behind Claudia say that the onus should be on the consumer to discern whether a model is real or synthetic.

A group of Stanford University students has developed a tool that combines AI and augmented reality (AR) to assist individuals during difficult conversations. The technology, called RizzGPT, uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 …

Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) is at the forefront of creating some of the most advanced and realistic military training simulations in the world. In a recent interview with Nextgov, BISim Chief Product Officer Pete Morrison discussed how the company’s simulation software has evolved over the past two years, including new capabilities that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) such as drones.

Ford is testing AI technology for automated driving to make the production process even more efficient. For this project, the new cars not only drive themselves off the production line but also to the final checkpoint. Then, they charge themselves and park themselves for transport to the customer.

According to a new study conducted by Duke developmental psychologists, children perceive smart speakers like Alexa as more human-like than autonomous vacuums like Roomba. The study also revealed that children believe that it is wrong to harm either device, despite perceiving a difference in their intelligence.

MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that enables drones to avoid collisions while working together in the same airspace. The system, known as Robust MADER, is an improved version of the Multiagent Trajectory-Planner, or MADER, which was presented by MIT researchers in 2020.

Stanford and Google researchers have made a new breakthrough n artificial intelligence (AI) by creating “generative agents” that behave in a remarkably human-like way. These agents were programmed to have the ability to communicate with others and their environment, remember and recall information, reflect on observations, and form plans for each day. In essence, they were given the capacity to think and act like humans.

Professor Stefan Seelecke and his team at Saarland University are currently developing a novel type of technology that allows humans and computers to communicate more naturally and more intuitively. When their thin polymer film is integrated into an assembly operator’s glove or deposited onto a display screen, the film functions as an interactive mediator that can tell a computer system what the human operator wants while also providing tactile feedback to the user in the form of pulses, vibrations or taps, or audible feedback in the form of acoustic signals.