Recent public interest in tools like ChatGPT has raised an old question in the artificial intelligence community: is artificial general inte...
A novel ultramicro supercapacitor with ultrahigh charge storage capability
Researchers at the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics (IAP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), have designed a novel ultram...
Sustainable thermal energy batteries from fully bio‐based transparent wood
A building material that combines coconuts, lemons and modified wood could one day be enough to heat and cool your home. The three renewable...
OpenAI's ChatGPT blocked in Italy: privacy watchdog
Italy's privacy watchdog said Friday it had blocked the controversial robot ChatGPT, saying the artificial intelligence app did not resp...
Ammonia as an efficient hydrogen carrier and green steel enabler
When it comes to sustainability and green steel, everybody talks about hydrogen. But current means of storing and transporting hydrogen requ...
Anti-interference and detail enhancement dehazing network for real-world scenes
The haze phenomenon seriously interferes the image acquisition and reduces the image quality. Due to many uncertain factors, dehazing is typ...
Musk's AI letter is a 'hot mess' of hype, say critics
A letter signed by Elon Musk and hundreds of experts calling for a pause in the development of artificial intelligence is a "hot mess...
EU deal to nearly double renewable energy by 2030
The European Union reached a deal Thursday to almost double the share of renewables in the 27-nation bloc's energy consumption by 2030 a...
AI could set a new bar for designing hurricane-resistant buildings
Being able to withstand hurricane-force winds is the key to a long life for many buildings on the Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast of the U.S...
New chip design to provide greatest precision in memory to date
Everyone is talking about the newest AI and the power of neural networks, forgetting that software is limited by the hardware on which it ru...
Engineer discusses the next generation of micrometer-scale batteries
Automated sprinklers, lighting, and security systems have been commonplace in homes and offices for several decades. In recent years, howeve...
Musk and experts call for halt in 'giant AI experiments'
Billionaire mogul Elon Musk and a range of experts called on Wednesday for a pause in the development of powerful artificial intelligence (A...
A new integrated solar battery based on carbon nitride photoanodes
In recent years, researchers have been trying to create increasingly efficient solar technologies and more sustainable battery designs. Amon...
Probing where protons go to develop better fuel cells
Solid oxide fuel cells, or SOFC, are a type of electrochemical device that generates electricity using hydrogen as fuel, with the only '...
Eco-efficient cement could pave the way to a greener future
The road to a net-zero future must be paved with greener concrete, and Rice University scientists know how to make it. from Energy & G...
Solid electrolyte for all-solid-state batteries without high-temperature heat treatment
The all-solid-state battery is a secondary battery with a solid electrolyte between the anode and cathode. It is considered a representative...
Scale-up of clean energy funding in Southeast Asia needed to meet climate goals: Report
Greater transparency around the financial performance of renewables, strong regulation and risk management are key to boosting clean energy ...
Researchers identify 6 challenges humans face with artificial intelligence
A University of Central Florida professor and 26 other researchers have published a study identifying the challenges humans must overcome to...
Fix to stop leak at Xcel's nuclear plant Minnesota did not work, prompting shutdown
Xcel Energy started shutting down its Monticello nuclear power plant Friday after the company's repair of a leaking pipe did not fully d...
New electrolyte enables high efficiency of safe, sustainable zinc batteries
Scientists led by an Oregon State University researcher have developed a new electrolyte that raises the efficiency of the zinc metal anode ...
'Glaze' software aims to protect art from copycat AI
Researchers at the University of Chicago have released free "Glaze" software that they say can thwart efforts by generative artifi...
Colorful films could help buildings, cars keep their cool
The cold blast of an air conditioner can be a welcome relief as temperatures soar, but "A/C" units require large amounts of energy...
EU, Germany reach deal on fossil fuel car phaseout plan
The European Union and Germany on Saturday said they had struck a deal after a dispute over the planned phaseout by 2035 of the sale of cars...
How AI can reveal corporate tax avoidance
Are the words used in annual reports a key to unlocking the secrets of corporate tax avoidance? from News on Artificial Intelligence and M...
Wastewater to energy: New treatment process can improve biorefinery sustainability
Wastewater from biorefineries that convert plants into fuel is full of organic materials that cannot be efficiently treated with conventiona...
Digital restoration of historical documents
One of the best ways to learn about any historical period is by conversing with the people who lived through it. Speaking with people from t...
Lemon peel, flax fibres hold keys to eco-friendly car parts
Natural materials including farm waste can make autos and other industries more sustainable, less toxic from Energy & Green Tech News ...
Trump arrested? Putin jailed? Fake AI images spread online
Former President Donald Trump getting gang-tackled by riot-gear-clad New York City police officers. Russian President Vladimir Putin in pris...
Comparing the neural activity differences between human-produced and NLP-produced language
Natural Language Processing (NLP) refers to the technology that enables machines to interact and communicate with humans through natural lan...
Novel heat-transfer medium and air wall increase efficiency of solar thermal tower power plants
The higher the receiver temperature, the more efficiently a solar thermal power plant will operate. Convective thermal losses also have an i...
New in-home AI tool monitors the health of elderly residents
Engineers are harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and wireless technology to unobtrusively monitor elderly people in their living spaces...
Microsoft's GitHub to add OpenAI chat functions to coding tool
Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI's language-generation tools—an app call...
Microsoft's GitHub to add OpenAI chat functions to coding tool
Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI's language-generation tools—an app call...
Bilayer PET/PVDF substrate-reinforced solid polymer electrolyte improves solid-state lithium metal battery performance
Effective energy storage is paramount to society's transition to renewable energy. Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) have the potential to ...
What really matters in multi-story building design?
The impact of multi-story building design considerations on embodied emissions, cost, and operational energy has been revealed for the first...
New LiGO technique accelerates training of large machine-learning models
It's no secret that OpenAI's ChatGPT has some incredible capabilities—for instance, the chatbot can write poetry that resembles Shak...
AI vs EU: ChatGPT shakes up Brussels plans for regulation
How do you protect people using new technology when it can radically change from one day to the next? from News on Artificial Intelligence...
Manpower shortage dims solar panel boom in Germany
Balancing on a sloping tiled roof, apprentice Pascal Ode installs a solar panel under the watchful eye of his trainer. from Energy & G...
An integrated approach to cool: How evaporation and radiation can cool the world
Large-scale, effective, and passive: these descriptions are aptly given to the integrated radiative and evaporative chiller (IREC), designed...
Developing self-sensing metamaterial concrete for smart infrastructure systems
Concrete is the most used material in the construction industry and dates to the Roman Empire. Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh are...
AI algorithm puts the color back in black and white films
Countless historical photographs are stored in black and white in the world's archives. Today, these cultural assets and contemporary do...
Tomato-residue-based lacquers to coat the inside of cans and food packaging
An international team of experts led by researchers from the research centers Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea ...
Seven things you need to know about lithium-ion battery safety
Lithium-ion batteries are the most widespread portable energy storage solution—but there are growing concerns regarding their safety. from...
Artificial intelligence expert weighs in on the rise of chatbots
What if a chatbot comes across as a friend? What if a chatbot extended what could be perceived as intimate feelings for another? Could chatb...
Artificial intelligence expert weighs in on the rise of chatbots
What if a chatbot comes across as a friend? What if a chatbot extended what could be perceived as intimate feelings for another? Could chatb...
Team develops see-through aerogel made from wood that better insulates double-paned windows
A team of physicists and material scientists at the University of Colorado has developed a way to better insulate double-paned glass used fo...
Venezuela, China, Biden and extraterrestrials: the disinformation of AI
A blond television presenter seemingly working for a channel called the "House of News" looks into the camera and asks in English:...
California educators sue TikTok, Snap and YouTube for allegedly delivering harmful content to kids
California educators are suing Snap, TikTok and YouTube over allegations they intentionally designed their platforms to be addictive and to ...
Fusion's future in the US could come down to dollars and cents
Fusion energy is often hailed as a limitless source of clean energy, but new research from Princeton University suggests that may only be tr...
Microsoft applies AI powers to Excel, Outlook
Microsoft pressed on with its AI revolution on Thursday, announcing that it would apply the powers behind ChatGPT to its iconic Excel, Word ...
Baidu unveils ChatGPT-rival Ernie Bot; 650 companies sign up
Chinese search giant Baidu unveiled its artificial intelligence chatbot Ernie Bot, presenting its rival to the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT in a...
Consumer Privacy Protection Act could lead to fines for deceptive designs in apps and websites
Canada's proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA) prohibits online consent processes that are deceptive or misleading. from Con...
A system integrating echo state graph neural networks and analogue random resistive memory arrays
Graph neural networks (GNNs) are promising machine learning architectures designed to analyze data that can be represented as graphs. These ...
First completely roll-to-roll printable perovskite solar cell
Swansea University has established a low-cost and scalable carbon ink formulation capable of unlocking, for the first time, the potential fo...
Worry, mistrust meet plans to secure waste from Niger uranium mine
Towering mounds dot the desert landscape in northern Niger's Arlit region, but there is little natural about them—they are heaps of part...
Scientists enhance recyclability of waste plastic
Plastics are incredible materials with properties invaluable to the functioning of our modern world. They are strong, flexible, versatile, l...
China's experience with mobile payments highlights the pros and cons of a cashless society
An increasing number of people are using mobile devices—their smartphone, a smartwatch or tablet—to pay for goods and services. Mobile devic...
Hot spring baths block Japan's geothermal potential
With over 100 active volcanos, Japan has the world's third largest geothermal resources, but also a powerful industry that has steadfast...
Record efficiency in direct conversion of carbon dioxide and water into sustainable fuels
A European consortium coordinated by Prof. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós from the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ-CERCA) with ...
A new method to boost the speed of online databases
Hashing is a core operation in most online databases, like a library catalog or an e-commerce website. A hash function generates codes that ...
Porsche backs synthetic option in EU fossil fuels row
The CEO of German auto giant Volkswagen and its luxury subsidiary Porsche on Monday backed moves by Berlin to block a European ban on new co...
Optical computing for object classification through diffusive random media
Object recognition through random scattering media has been an important but challenging task in many fields, such as biomedical imaging, oc...
Ships harness wind for voyage to a cleaner future
New sails and boat designs are set to help shipowners slash fuel costs and emissions. from Energy & Green Tech News - Energy Sciences ...
A deep learning and model predictive control framework to control quadrotors and agile robots
In recent years, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced algorithms for controlling the movements of robotic agents. These ...
At San Francisco expo, AI 'sorry' for destroying humanity
Advances in artificial intelligence are coming so hard and fast that a museum in San Francisco, the beating heart of the tech revolution, ha...
New research explains why a bad first impression cost Google $100 billion—or more
Google's launch of Bard, it's search-integrated, AI-powered chatbot, went wrong when the bot's first advertisement accidentally ...
New research uses geothermal energy to slash emissions
A University of Canterbury (UC) Ph.D. student has identified a renewable and affordable energy source with the ability to remove carbon diox...
'Meta-Semi' machine learning approach outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in deep learning tasks
Deep learning based semi-supervised learning algorithms have shown promising results in recent years. However, they are not yet practical in...
Solid natural gas: An avenue to a safer, cleaner and brighter future
Natural gas is a clean, odorless and non-toxic energy source that provides warmth for cooking and heating, and fuels power stations that pro...
The most visited websites do not comply correctly with privacy laws and actively track their users, finds Spanish study
Only a small percentage of the 500 most visited websites in Spain (which include everything from government sites to streaming and adult con...
Startup will use ChatGPT to answer online reviews on Yelp and Google
San Diego digital marketing outfit SOCi said Tuesday that it raised $120 million in a tough funding environment for startups to bulk up arti...
Hundreds of sexual ads using deepfakes ran on social media
A massive advertising campaign launched this week by a deepfake app featured the faces of actresses Emma Watson and Scarlett Johansson. fr...
Startup will use ChatGPT to answer online reviews on Yelp and Google
San Diego digital marketing outfit SOCi said Tuesday that it raised $120 million in a tough funding environment for startups to bulk up arti...
Designing a 'neural puppeteer' to recognize skeletal nodes
Imagine for a moment, that we are on a safari watching a giraffe graze. After looking away for a second, we then see the animal lower its he...
Building cladding with recycled glass scores sky-high results in sustainability
Engineers have developed new fire-safe building claddings using recycled glass, creating a promising circular-economy solution to address a ...
New insights into training dynamics of deep classifiers
A new study from researchers at MIT and Brown University characterizes several properties that emerge during the training of deep classifier...
New Zealand's green hydrogen edge
Aotearoa New Zealand is likely to have a competitive advantage when it comes to generating clean, green hydrogen and this edge should help t...
Should you pay for Meta's and Twitter's verified identity subscriptions? A social media researcher explains
Social media services have generally been free of charge for users, but now, with ad revenues slowing down, social media companies are looki...
'Digital Red Scare' or Chinese propaganda tool? As legislators push to ban TikTok, users wonder what will happen
U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner plans to introduce a bill this week that will allow the U.S. to ban Chinese technolo...
AI- or human-written language? Assumptions mislead
Human assumptions regarding language usage can lead to flawed judgments of whether language was AI- or human-generated, Cornell Tech and Sta...
Novel method to generate virtual surface morphology of Ti-6Al-4V parts
A recent study, jointly led by Professor Im Doo Jung in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UNIST and Professor Hyokyung Sung from K...
Germany angers EU after putting brakes on fossil fuel car ban
Berlin has upset EU partners by blocking a milestone agreement to ban new sales of fossil fuel cars from 2035, as German domestic politics t...
A renewable energy-based bi-directional heat trade system
Global energy trends are shifting toward digitalization, decarbonization and decentralization. Global warming and climate anomalies attribut...
A strategy to stabilize 3D/2D perovskite heterostructures for solar cells
Hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) made of organic and inorganic materials are highly promising energy solutions that could help to reduce...
Electric vehicle batteries could get big boost with new polymer coating
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a conductive polymer coating—called HOS-PFM—that could ena...
A new inference attack that could enable access to sensitive user data
As the use of machine learning (ML) algorithms continues to grow, computer scientists worldwide are constantly trying to identify and addres...
Generative AI like ChatGPT reveal deep-seated systemic issues beyond the tech industry
ChatGPT has cast long shadows over the media as the latest form of disruptive technology. For some, ChatGPT is a harbinger of the end of aca...
Buildings used iron from sunken ships centuries ago. The use of recycled materials should be business as usual by now
At Fremantle Prison in the 1850s, when metal was scarce, the prison gate and handrails were made from iron recovered from sunken ships. As I...
Amazon shutters cashierless convenience stores in 3 major markets
Amazon is closing eight Go convenience stores, including two in Seattle, as it continues to evaluate its brick-and-mortar strategy. from C...
A wholly sustainable plastics economy is feasible, shows study
Plastic is everywhere. Our society cannot do without it: plastics have numerous advantages, are extremely versatile, and are also cost effec...
Engineers design solar roofs to harvest energy for greenhouses
As countries around the globe seek sustainable energy sources and the U.S. endeavors to become a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, renewab...
Large language models are biased. Can logic help save them?
Turns out, even language models "think" they're biased. When prompted in ChatGPT, the response was as follows: "Yes, lang...
Economic management scientists warn of industry's increasing dominance in AI research
A trio of economic management scientists, two with the Sloan School of Management at MIT and one with Virginia Tech, are warning of the cons...
Machine magic or art menace? Japan's first AI manga
The author of a sci-fi manga about to hit shelves in Japan admits he has "absolutely zero" drawing talent, so turned to artificial...
Texas: Wind and solar stake claim to land of oil
Modern Texas was built on oil, and its production has long been a source of immense pride. But now, areas that moved to the steady rhythm of...
Next step in surveillance AI: Finding out who your friends are
A gray-haired man walks through an office lobby holding a coffee cup, staring ahead as he passes the entryway. from News on Artificial Int...
Machine learning stabilizes mechanical parts, protects from damaging friction conditions
Mechanical systems in which moving parts come into regular contact are prone to damage due to the effects of friction. Researchers at Tohoku...
Speeding up extreme fast-charging capability in lithium-ion batteries
Current society is transitioning en masse from fossil fuels to renewable resources and electric batteries. Despite the urgency to switch to ...
California reactors win exemption in fight to keep running
Government regulators Thursday granted California's largest utility an unusual exemption that could allow the state's last nuclear p...
ChatGPT turns to manga in 'One Piece' author experiment
The AI programme ChatGPT has passed exams, penned news articles and produced code. So perhaps no surprise that "One Piece" author ...
Researchers delve into the role of water in PEM fuel cells
Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs), directly converting fuel into electric energy through a solid electrolyte membrane, have becom...
Forget chatbots, this is how corporate America is really using AI
Ever since OpenAI's ChatGPT lit up the internet in November, companies can't stop talking about artificial intelligence. Take this e...
AI could make more work for us, instead of simplifying our lives, says researcher
There's a common perception that artificial intelligence (AI) will help streamline our work. There are even fears that it could wipe out...
Integrating humans with AI in structural design
Modern fabrication tools such as 3D printers can make structural materials in shapes that would have been difficult or impossible using conv...
Fukushima plant head: Too early to predict decommissioning
The head of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant says details of the damage inside its reactors are only beginning to be known 12 yea...
Tech rivals chase ChatGPT as AI race ramps up
Chasing Microsoft, global tech giants have rolled out announcements on how they will implement ChatGPT-like artificial intelligence into the...
Tool helps prevent fires and explosions in natural gas lines
Lines in natural gas grids have to be maintained and serviced regularly. This entails using flares to vent the natural gas. With FlareSimula...
Europeans scramble in AI race
Generative AI chatbots unveiled by US tech firms have captivated the world with their spectacular successes and failures in engaging in conv...
Report finds no single alternative to fossil-based jet fuel to support present demand
Decarbonizing the aviation industry by removing fossil fuels is an enormous challenge and requires a "whole systems approach," acc...
Echo state graph neural networks with analogue random resistive memory arrays
Graph neural networks have been widely used for studying social networks, e-commerce, drug predictions, human-computer interaction, and more...
Almost all cobalt can be recycled using new method requiring less energy with little environmental impact
Researchers at Linnaeus University have developed a more environmentally friendly way of retrieving cobalt from used lithium-ion batteries. ...
A new approach to improve robot navigation in crowded environments
While robots have become increasingly advanced over the past few years, most of them are still unable to reliably navigate very crowded spac...
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