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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Pudding: What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?. “This is possible because media artist Yufeng Zhao fed millions of publicly-available panoramas from Google Street View into a computer program that transcribes text within the images (anyone can access these Street View images; you don’t even need a Google account!).”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/the-pudding-what-if-you-could-search-every-visible-word-on-new-york-citys-streets/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/the-pudding-what-if-you-could-search-every-visible-word-on-new-york-citys-streets/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Temple University: New research reveals superior visual perception in humans compared with AI. “[Professor Vlad] Ayzenberg and researchers from Emory University compared the visual perceptual abilities of preschoolers and state-of-the-art AI models and found that these children outperformed the best computer vision models currently available.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/temple-university-new-research-reveals-superior-visual-perception-in-humans-compared-with-ai/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/temple-university-new-research-reveals-superior-visual-perception-in-humans-compared-with-ai/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>North Carolina State University: New Attack Can Make AI ‘See’ Whatever You Want. “Researchers have demonstrated a new way of attacking artificial intelligence computer vision systems, allowing them to control what the AI ‘sees.’ The research shows that the new technique, called RisingAttacK, is effective at manipulating all of the most widely used AI computer vision systems.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/08/north-carolina-state-university-new-attack-can-make-ai-see-whatever-you-want/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/08/north-carolina-state-university-new-attack-can-make-ai-see-whatever-you-want/</a></p>
IT News<p>Hackaday Links: June 29, 2025 - In today’s episode of “AI Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things,” we feature the Hertz ... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/06/29/hackaday-links-june-29-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/06/29/hackad</span><span class="invisible">ay-links-june-29-2025/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hackadaycolumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackadaycolumns</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hackadaylinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackadaylinks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/machinevision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machinevision</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/reentalcar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reentalcar</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/slowmotion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slowmotion</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ugga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ugga</span></a>-dugga <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/aluminum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aluminum</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/wrenches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wrenches</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/chatbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatbot</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medical</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/welding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>welding</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/slider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slider</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hertz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hertz</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/laser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>laser</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/skull" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>skull</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tools</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tig</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Trinity College Dublin: Pervasive surveillance of people is being used to access, monetise, coerce, and control . “New research has underlined the surprising extent to which pervasive surveillance of people and their habits is powered by computer vision research – and shone a spotlight on how vulnerable individuals and communities are at risk.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/29/trinity-college-dublin-pervasive-surveillance-of-people-is-being-used-to-access-monetise-coerce-and-control/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/29/trinity-college-dublin-pervasive-surveillance-of-people-is-being-used-to-access-monetise-coerce-and-control/</a></p>
Pyrzout :vm:<p>AI Piano Teacher to Criticize Your Every Move <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/06/22/ai-piano-teacher-to-criticize-your-every-move/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/06/22/ai-pia</span><span class="invisible">no-teacher-to-criticize-your-every-move/</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/machinevision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machinevision</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/instructable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>instructable</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/rasberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rasberrypi</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/pianohack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pianohack</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/AImodel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AImodel</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>
IT News<p>AI Piano Teacher to Criticize Your Every Move - Learning new instruments is never a simple task on your own; nothing can beat the ... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/06/22/ai-piano-teacher-to-criticize-your-every-move/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/06/22/ai-pia</span><span class="invisible">no-teacher-to-criticize-your-every-move/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/machinevision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machinevision</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/instructable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>instructable</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/rasberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rasberrypi</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pianohack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pianohack</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/aimodel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aimodel</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Ohio State University: Why AI can’t understand a flower the way humans do. “Even with all its training and computer power, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool like ChatGPT can’t represent the concept of a flower the way a human does, according to a new study. That’s because the large language models (LLMs) that power AI assistants are based usually on language alone, and sometimes […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/the-ohio-state-university-why-ai-cant-understand-a-flower-the-way-humans-do/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/the-ohio-state-university-why-ai-cant-understand-a-flower-the-way-humans-do/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Estonian Research Council: Researcher explores visual media through the lens of machine vision. “In his doctoral thesis, Tallinn University School of Digital Technologies student Tillmann Ohm proposes a new way to explore large visual collections: through the lens of machine vision, focusing not on what an image is but on what it resembles. Instead of sorting images into fixed categories, the […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/estonian-research-council-researcher-explores-visual-media-through-the-lens-of-machine-vision/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/17/estonian-research-council-researcher-explores-visual-media-through-the-lens-of-machine-vision/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Tech Xplore: Vision-language models can’t handle queries with negation words, study shows. “In a new study appearing on the arXiv preprint server, MIT researchers have found that vision-language models are extremely likely to make such a mistake in real-world situations because they don’t understand negation—words like ‘no’ and ‘doesn’t’ that specify what is false or absent.” Exclusion […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/techxplore-vision-language-models-cant-handle-queries-with-negation-words-study-shows/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/25/techxplore-vision-language-models-cant-handle-queries-with-negation-words-study-shows/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Florida Atlantic University: Engineers Bring Sign Language to ‘Life’ Using AI. “… researchers from the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University have developed an innovative real-time ASL interpretation system. Combining the object detection power of YOLOv11 with MediaPipe’s precise hand tracking, the system can accurately recognize ASL alphabet […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/11/florida-atlantic-university-engineers-bring-sign-language-to-life-using-ai/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/11/florida-atlantic-university-engineers-bring-sign-language-to-life-using-ai/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Conversation: Shark AI uses fossil shark teeth to get middle school kids interested in paleontology and computer vision. “We are researchers in AI literacy and STEM education who helped create a series of lessons that use fossil shark teeth to demonstrate the power and pitfalls of AI. The curriculum guides middle school students and teachers through building and evaluating computer vision […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/10/the-conversation-shark-ai-uses-fossil-shark-teeth-to-get-middle-school-kids-interested-in-paleontology-and-computer-vision/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/10/the-conversation-shark-ai-uses-fossil-shark-teeth-to-get-middle-school-kids-interested-in-paleontology-and-computer-vision/</a></p>
Neural<p>Edited by Raivo Kelomees, Varvara Guliajeva, Oliver Laas - The Meaning of Creativity in the Age of AI</p><p><a href="https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3297" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.neural.it/init/default</span><span class="invisible">/show/3297</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/aiart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aiart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/computationalcreativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computationalcreativity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/artificialintelligenceart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artificialintelligenceart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/machinelearningart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machinelearningart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/creativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creativeai</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/creativeaiart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creativeaiart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/machinevision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machinevision</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/computervision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computervision</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/neuralnetworkart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neuralnetworkart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativeai</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/algorithmicart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algorithmicart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/artandtechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artandtechnology</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/newmediaart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newmediaart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/mediaart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mediaart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/digitalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/innovationinart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>innovationinart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/informationart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>informationart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/digitalaesthetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalaesthetics</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/creativecoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creativecoding</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/creativecodeart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creativecodeart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/codeart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>codeart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/algorithmicart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algorithmicart</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/creativetechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creativetechnology</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/digitalcultures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalcultures</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/technoculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technoculture</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/neuralmag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neuralmag</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/neuralmagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neuralmagazine</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/neuralarchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neuralarchive</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Cheap Endoscopic Camera Helps Automate Pressure Advance Calibration - The difference between 3D printing and good 3D printing comes down to attention to... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/03/21/cheap-endoscopic-camera-helps-automate-pressure-advance-calibration/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/03/21/cheap-</span><span class="invisible">endoscopic-camera-helps-automate-pressure-advance-calibration/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pressureadvance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pressureadvance</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/3dprinterhacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3dprinterhacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/imageanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imageanalysis</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/machinevision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machinevision</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/calibration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>calibration</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/endoscope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>endoscope</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/extrusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extrusion</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/klipper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>klipper</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Desert ant shows Chinese team the way to high-definition polarised light sensor chip <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/584977/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/584977/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BeihangUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeihangUniversity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BioInspiredMaterials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BioInspiredMaterials</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/BionicNavigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BionicNavigation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CancerousTissue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CancerousTissue</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ChineseAcademyOfSciences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChineseAcademyOfSciences</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CompactChip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CompactChip</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DesertAnts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DesertAnts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GeologicalRemoteSensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeologicalRemoteSensing</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LiMingzhu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiMingzhu</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MachineVision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MachineVision</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NanoimprintingCrystallisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NanoimprintingCrystallisation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PolarisationPhotodetectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PolarisationPhotodetectors</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/PolarisationSensitivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PolarisationSensitivity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ScienceAdvances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceAdvances</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ThinFilms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThinFilms</span></a></p>