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Interventions can make the most difference when Alzheimer’s is detected early.
AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
Your heart rate reveals your brain activity, which in turn can predict hit songs — and maybe stock performance, as well.
Sophia, the humanoid robot, is not just mirroring emotions; she's leading a revolution in emotional intelligence.
John Templeton Foundation
It's like combining Google Translate with a time machine.
Science fiction movies capture a classic human flaw: getting the future mostly wrong.
Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
The future of healthcare may bring powerful collaborations between AI and medical professionals.
Data scientists first gained prominence by making us click on ads — now the profession spans a multiverse.
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How World War II codebreaker Alan Turing invented modern AI.
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A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.
The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant's pain.
A new AI lie detector can dive into their hidden thoughts and reveal “what language models truly believe about the world.”
The ability to decode acoustic information from brain activity aids the development of brain-computer interfaces that restore communication in patients who suffer paralysis.
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.
In a state of "hyperwar," accidents or unexpected AI decisions could lead to widespread devastation before humans could intervene.
ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.
The initial goal of AI was to create machines that think like humans. But that is not what happened at all.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.
"A modern five-day forecast is as accurate as a one-day forecast in 1980."
Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.
ChatGPT's capabilities are astonishing.
Researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter voices.
Meaningful pictures are assembled from meaningless noise.
The AI test can be done every night at home while the person is asleep, without even touching their body.
Deep learning AI has accurately created color images from night vision images.
It is all too easy for humans to fall into the cognitive trap of thinking that an entity that can use language fluently is sentient or intelligent.
AI systems can carry on convincing conversations, but they have no understanding of what they're saying. Humans are easily fooled.
The engineer working on Google's AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.