The US National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced an investment of more than $ 100 million to establish five institutes of artificial intelligence (AI), each of which will receive approximately $ 20 million over five years. One of these, the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI), …
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Can you recognize a digitally manipulated video when you watch one? It is more difficult than most people think. As the technology to produce realistic deepfakes becomes more readily available, distinguishing fact from fiction will only become more challenging. A new digital storytelling project at MIT’s Advanced Virtuality Center aims …
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The lawsuit over whether foreign students will lose their F-1 nonimmigrant student visa status and will have to go home if their schools switch to online courses has been settled. The Trump administration agreed to reinstate a directive it issued in March that increased the number of online courses they …
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Nearly 60 public and private universities are supporting a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the Trump administration from stripping foreign students of visas at universities that choose against in-person classes this fall due to the coronavirus pandemic. Harvard University and MIT filed the lawsuit last week in Boston federal court …
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