OpinionApril 5, 2022
What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI
To tackle the climate crisis, artificial intelligence is becoming more open and democratic
Artificial Intelligence
OpinionMarch 30, 2022
AI-Influenced Weapons Need Better Regulation
The weapons are error-prone and could hit the wrong targets
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Artificial IntelligenceMarch 15, 2022
Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake?
New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 14, 2022
Humans Find AI-Generated Faces More Trustworthy Than the Real Thing
Viewers struggle to distinguish images of sophisticated machine-generated faces from actual humans
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 11, 2022
AI Outraces Human Champs at the Video Game Gran Turismo
The program also challenges certain assumptions about self-driving cars
NeuroscienceJanuary 28, 2022
Lego Robot with an Organic ‘Brain’ Learns to Navigate a Maze
The neuromorphic computing device solved the puzzle by working like an animal brain would
Artificial IntelligenceJanuary 5, 2022
How AI Could Prevent the Development of New Illicit Drugs
The DarkNPS algorithm has predicted the formulas of millions of potential drugs
BiotechDecember 16, 2021
A Portable MRI Makes Imaging More Democratic
An open-source approach downsizes today’s clunking behemoths with permanent magnets and deep-learning algorithms
RoboticsDecember 10, 2021
Evolution Gym Sculpts Novel Robot Bodies and Brains
The virtual robots look weird, but they get the job done
OpinionNovember 8, 2021
Why We Forgive Humans More Readily Than Machines
When things go wrong, flexible moral intuitions cause us to judge computers more severely
Artificial IntelligenceOctober 28, 2021
AI Generates Hypotheses Human Scientists Have Not Thought Of
Machine-learning algorithms can guide humans toward new experiments and theories
OpinionOctober 19, 2021
‘Small Data’ Are Also Crucial for Machine Learning
The most promising AI approach you’ve never heard of doesn’t need to go big