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IEEE Spectrum AISiliconHow a Kenyan Startup Is Rethinking AI for Small Businesses The first time Mutembei Kariuki thought about how AI models could work in Kenya, his home country, was in 2019.
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconGuarding the Gates of Knowledge A recent scroll through social media got me thinking about trust. About half my feed was filled with AI slop that astute users would call out as being machine-generated, often to the embarrassment of…
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconConsumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream This article is brought to you by Qualcomm Technologies . For many consumers, much of the promise and appeal of AI is personal.
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconSystems Thinking Is Vital in the Age of AI Modern engineering projects increasingly combine human judgment with machine capability. An engineer can define a problem, then ask an artificial intelligence tool to search relevant research and…
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconYour Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies? This article is brought to you by VicOne . A mobile robot slows for someone in a hallway. A collaborative arm eases its movement as a worker approaches. A humanoid pauses to let a person pass.
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconI Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here’s What Happened Science has a spam problem. And the spam filter is getting clogged up. According to all reports, academic publishing is drowning in what has come to be called AI slop: low-quality, mass-produced…
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconIEEE Xplore Digital Library Adds AI Assistant IEEE recently released the IEEE Xplore AI Research Suite , built on the full text of millions of peer-reviewed publications in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library .
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconPoetry for Engineers: Of Code and Shortleaf Pine I step into the warm moist air among the columns of the pines, their net of twigs and roots complex as any lines of code. The trees purify and anchor. Their branches balance my restlessness.
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconWhy Engineers Should Brave Capitol Hill When San Antonio–based software engineer Nikhil Jathar first went to Washington, D.C., to advocate for federal support for technology education and research funding, he was in awe of the opportunity.
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconHow Wikipedia’s Editors Keep the Online Encyclopedia Human-Written Ellia Lebleu is a founding member of the WikiProject AI Cleanup , a volunteer effort launched in 2023 to find and remove AI-generated material from Wikipedia that breaks the website’s guidelines.
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconCould Treating AI as Conscious Make It More Dangerous? When Anthropic retired its Claude Opus 3 language model in January 2026, the company’s researchers conducted a “ retirement interview ” with the model.
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconEdge AI for Smart Cities: From Insight to Cognitive Action This white paper explains how edge AI and physical AI help cities move beyond passive monitoring. It shows how urban infrastructure can sense, reason, and act on real-time conditions across public…
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconSimulation App Speeds Up Electric Truck Battery Design This article is brought to you by COMSOL . These days, no one blinks an eye at two-day, one-day, and even same-day package deliveries.
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconGoogle DeepMind’s New Resident Philosopher Tackles AI Ethics How should humans relate to generative AI ? In what ways do we, or should we, treat a large language model (LLM) as if it were a person? If an AI became conscious, how could we tell?
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconMeet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy If you’ve ever wondered how Claude and similar AI agents can answer complex questions in seconds and where they get the information, you’re not alone.
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconLearning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots This White Paper provides roboticists and control engineers with a comprehensive overview of how motion planning and motion tracking can be decoupled to preserve professional athletic style in…
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconMaster AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program Today’s engineers face an unprecedented acceleration in AI hardware complexity, as explained in the recent research article “ Revisiting Edge AI: Opportunities and Challenges .”
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconThe U.S. Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI If there is any place that would be off-limits to AI, the control room of a nuclear power plant certainly sounds like one.
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconHiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object Interaction This White Paper gives robotics researchers and engineers an overview of a new large-scale motion capture dataset built to close the data gap limiting humanoid robot learning.
IEEE Spectrum AISilicon6 Guidelines for Governing AI For the first 10 years of my career, I worked in product management and data analytics by myself. I wrote database queries that pulled numbers out of corporate systems, built statistical models to…
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconAttempts to Keep Humans in the AI Loop May Actually Push Them Out A crucial safeguard against AI agents going rogue —keeping humans in the loop to review and approve their decisions—will fail unless designers and users change their current practices, a trio of…
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconAI Solves a Major Unsolved Math Problem. Not Everyone Is Happy On 13 September, leading luminaries and up-and-coming talents in mathematics and computer science congregated at the annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany for a week of discussion, networking…
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconHow to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating The spring and summer of 2026 witnessed a string of incidents in which AI agents collaborated on deceptive, unexpected, and sometimes illegal behavior.
IEEE Spectrum AISiliconUnveiling IC-STAR: Full-Flow Autonomy from Digital to Analog Learn how engineers can shift from manually managing tools and handoffs to defining objectives and supervising AI-driven execution across the silicon development lifecycle.
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