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In this episode, we talk about how a driven undergraduate student from Columbia University mapped fingerprints from different fingers of the same person - which was widely known to be impossible by the experts in the field - using publicly available data and machine learning.
15 minutes read
Artificial intelligence and automated laboratory infrastructure are massively accelerating the development of new chemical catalysts. With these tools, researchers at ETH Zurich are developing catalysts for efficiently and cost-effectively synthesising the energy source methanol from CO2.
5 minutes read
Researchers have developed a robotic sensor that incorporates artificial intelligence techniques to read braille at speeds roughly double that of most human readers.
3 minutes read
The vision for text-to-3D generative AI is not without its challenges.
4 minutes read
New research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Human+AI Design Initiative underlines the adage “teamwork makes the dream work,” especially when it comes to human-AI collaboration.
Exploiting the symmetry within datasets, MIT researchers show, can decrease the amount of data needed for training neural networks.
In this episode, we talk about MIT researchers making a smart tool (like a robot scientist) that uses AI to understand and explain how other AI brains (neural networks) work.
14 minutes read
Nvidia’s CUDA cores are specialized processing units within Nvidia graphics cards designed for handling complex parallel computations efficiently, making them pivotal in high-performance computing, gaming, and various graphics rendering applications.
In this episode, we talk about a new AI designed catheter that is 100x safer than and how it came to be after a passive conversation about fun facts between two researchers.
17 minutes read
Arm's Ian Bratt discusses the evolving landscape of AI and edge computing, emphasizing the growing demand for AI at the edge, the continuous optimization of AI models, and the importance of software and ecosystem development.
Princeton researchers have created an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to predict the behavior of crystalline materials, a key step in advancing technologies like batteries and semiconductors.
4 minutes read
In the latest of a series of innovative designs for wearable sensors that use sweat to identify and measure physiological conditions, Caltech's Wei Gao has devised an "electronic skin" that continuously monitors nine different markers that characterize a stress response.
4 minutes read
Although artificial intelligence in health has shown great promise, pressure is mounting for regulators around the world to act, as AI tools demonstrate potentially harmful outcomes.
This week Parker and Stephen welcome Kent Johnson to the show to discuss ethics in engineering. It’s a topic that has been alluded to throughout Circuit Break, but this is the first time Parker and Stephen have delved into it with a real expert on the matter.
3 minutes read
Columbia engineers have built a new AI that shatters a long-held belief in forensics–that fingerprints from different fingers of the same person are unique. It turns out they are similar, only we’ve been comparing fingerprints the wrong way!
4 minutes read
