{"id":220788,"date":"2026-05-27T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/tech-briefs-a-blacksburg-with-no-hokie-stone-ai-imagined-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:20:08","slug":"tech-briefs-a-blacksburg-with-no-hokie-stone-ai-imagined-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/tech-briefs-a-blacksburg-with-no-hokie-stone-ai-imagined-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Briefs: A Blacksburg with no Hokie stone? AI imagined it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardinalnews.org\/2026\/05\/27\/tech-briefs-a-blacksburg-with-no-hokie-stone-ai-imagined-it\/\">Tech Briefs: A Blacksburg with no Hokie stone? AI imagined it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardinalnews.org\/2026\/05\/27\/tech-briefs-a-blacksburg-with-no-hokie-stone-ai-imagined-it\/\">https:\/\/cardinalnews.org\/2026\/05\/27\/tech-briefs-a-blacksburg-with-no-hokie-stone-ai-imagined-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 04:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cardinalnews.org\">cardinalnews.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Bias in Location Imagery<\/strong>: A study by Virginia Tech researchers reveals that AI is biased towards large cities in generating location images, failing to accurately represent smaller towns and their unique landmarks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Lack of Representation Issues<\/strong>: The research highlights the importance of comprehensive datasets and local perspectives to improve AI&#8217;s geographical representation, addressing the visibility of smaller cities online.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Modification for Military Training<\/strong>: Virginia Tech professor Louis Hickman led a team to modify the video game &#8220;Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare&#8221; to facilitate leadership, critical thinking, and decision-making training for Marine Corps University students.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Data Collection for Training Improvement<\/strong>: The adapted game collects detailed player data which will be analyzed to refine after-action combat reviews, a crucial component of military training.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech Briefs: A Blacksburg with no Hokie stone? AI imagined it. https:\/\/cardinalnews.org\/2026\/05\/27\/tech-briefs-a-blacksburg-with-no-hokie-stone-ai-imagined-it\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-27&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cardinalnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Untitled-design-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220790,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220788\/revisions\/220790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}