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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.

Clearview AI, a facial recognition firm, has carried out almost one million searches for US police. The technology, which has raised concerns over privacy breaches, allows law enforcement officials to upload a suspect’s photo and compare it to the billions of images in the company’s database. In an interview with the BBC, Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That stated that the company had scraped 30 billion images from sites like Facebook without user consent.

USC Viterbi computer science researchers have developed a system to teach robots how to predict human preferences in assembly tasks. The system, which was a finalist for the best paper award at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), could help robots become more collaborative helpers in manufacturing and everyday life.

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, shared his excitement about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in a blog. Gates described witnessing two technological advancements that struck him as revolutionary during his lifetime. The first was the graphical user interface, which he brainstormed with Microsoft’s Charles Simonyi, and the second was OpenAI’s GPT model that aced an Advanced Placement biology exam.

Controlling a robot with your mind may sound like something straight out of a science fiction movie, but recent research published in ACS Applied Nano Materials has taken a significant step toward making it a reality. The study describes a unique, 3D-patterned structure that doesn’t require sticky conductive gels and can measure the brain’s electrical activity, even amidst hair and the bumps and curves of the head.