Artificial Intelligence

AI-powered facial recognition will lead to increased racial profiling

Laser-based optical frequency combs, originally developed to time atomic clocks, can also perform fast, noninvasive tests for COVID—and potentially other diseases as well

Researchers are still struggling to understand how AI models trained to parrot Internet text can perform advanced tasks such as running code, playing games and trying to break up a marriage

New technology gleans the gist of stories a person hears while laying in a brain scanner

Humans are building meaningful relationships with AI chatbots. What will the consequences be?

Boris Eldagsen submitted an artificial-intelligence-generated image to a photography contest as a “cheeky monkey” and sparked a debate about AI’s place in the art world

The 1934 puzzle book Cain’s Jawbone stumped all but a handful of humans. Then AI took the case

The AI GPT-4 has emergent abilities—but that’s not why it’s scary. 

Using machine learning, researchers have now created a much sharper portrait of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87

Can researchers create AI algorithms that are ethical today—and will be safe in the future?

Researchers used an artificial tongue to understand how chocolate changes from a solid to a smooth emulsion

Artificial-intelligence-powered image-generating systems are making fake photographs so hard to detect that we need AI to catch them