Artificial Intelligence

A leaked draft of the European Union’s upcoming AI Act has experts discussing where the regulations may fall short

When asked, ChatGPT declared that its training material—the language we humans use every day—was to blame for potential bias in stories it generated

A new kind of transistor allows AI hardware to remember and process information more like the human brain does

Most machine-learning models rely on mountains of data to replicate human text, but new research suggests the recipe for learning language might be simpler

The word “open” is often thrown around in describing AI transparency, but the companies and groups calling for it must themselves be open about their practices

A Brookings Institution report warns that energy-hungry artificial intelligence tech will worsen the climate crisis

A speculative survey about AI’s future may have been biased toward an alarmist perspective

An alleged voice recording of racist remarks exemplifies the challenges of our new AI normal

Researchers have doubted how useful AI protein-structure tool AlphaFold will be in discovering medicines—now they are learning how to deploy it effectively

A new study used machine learning to “autocomplete” the life trajectories of six million Danish people—and forecast when they might kick the bucket.

Amid the machine-learning boom, model developers have built an all-purpose digital oracle from a trove of big data

Until now computers have failed to solve mathematical problems. But the AI program AlphaGeometry has succeeded in finding proofs for dozens of theorems from the International Mathematical Olympiad