Scientists have developed a novel way of making people care about climate change: flooding their homes. Not their real homes, of course; the destruction is merely a simulation — for now. But projecting catastrophic consequences onto familiar places could generate awareness through empathy. “Shock is not the endgame here,”said study lead authorVictor Schmidt, a PhD candidate at the Mila Quebec AI Institute in Montreal, Canada. “We want to trigger and leverage emotions towards actions....

If you’re captivated by the drama of the European Football Championship, have you considered watching Wimbledon instead? Tennis is, after all, a more euphoric sport to watch. Or so claims a new AI analysis. The study by British TV platform Freeview explored emotional reactions to different sports by analyzing the expressions of viewers. The150 participants were sent content from 10 sports consisting of 30,750 frames, which were standardized to capture the same format of low, medium, and high-intensity clips....

Samson and Delilahis among the most famous works by Peter Paul Rubens, one of the most influential artists of the 17th century. The painting depicts an Old Testament story in which the warrior Samson is betrayed by his lover Delilah.When London’s National Gallery bought the masterpiece in 1980, it becamethe third most expensive artworkever purchased at auction. But the buyers may now be searching for their receipt. According to a new AI analysis,their prized possession is almost certainly a fake....

Human-made climatechange may already be affecting at least 85% of the world’s population, according toa new AI analysis. Scientists produced the estimate by usingthe BERT language modeltoextractenvironmental assessments from research papers. Their algorithm was first trained on more than 2,000 hand-coded documents. It was then applied to a trove of studies published between 1951 and 2018. In total, thealgorithmidentified more than 100,000 papers documenting the effects of climate change. The 💜 of EU tech...

AI to take on human pilots in real-world fighter aircraft trials The Pentagon said the tests will take place in 2024 AI could “transform nearly every aspect of the battlefield” The dogfight was among a range of AI initiatives Esper said would help the US maintain military supremacy over China and Russia. He noted that Moscow is developing AI systems for ground vehicles, aircraft, nuclear submarines, and command and control, while Chinese weapons manufacturers are selling autonomous drones they say can conduct lethal targeted strikes....