AnimalsFebruary 7, 2023
How Scientists Are Using AI to Talk to Animals
Portable sensors and artificial intelligence are helping researchers decode animal communication—and begin to talk back to nonhumans
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 6, 2023
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Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 3, 2023
Mystery Portrait May Be a Raphael, Artificial Intelligence Suggests
A mysterious portrait of the Virgin Mary and Jesus may have been painted by the master Raphael, facial recognition finds. But many art historians reject the claim
OpinionJanuary 17, 2023
What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI
An AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek is definitely entertaining, but it also illustrates the crisis of misinformation beginning to befall us
Artificial IntelligenceJanuary 13, 2023
Research Summaries Written by AI Fool Scientists
Scientists cannot always differentiate between research abstracts generated by the AI ChatGPT and those written by humans
Artificial IntelligenceDecember 28, 2022
ChatGPT Explains Why AIs like ChatGPT Should Be Regulated
We asked the text-generating AI ChatGPT to talk about its own flaws
Artificial IntelligenceDecember 19, 2022
AI Platforms like ChatGPT Are Easy to Use but Also Potentially Dangerous
Systems like ChatGPT are enormously entertaining and even mind-bogglingly human-sounding, but they are also unreliable and could create an avalanche of misinformation
Artificial IntelligenceDecember 15, 2022
10 Ways AI Was Used for Good This Year
Artificial intelligence can improve health, protect biodiversity and even write wine reviews
Artificial IntelligenceNovember 15, 2022
Smart Algorithms Could Identify Animal Viruses with Pandemic Potential
Machine learning could find the viruses that are most likely to spill over from animals and cause future pandemics
Artificial IntelligenceOctober 31, 2022
One of the Biggest Problems in Biology Has Finally Been Solved
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how its AlphaFold AI program predicted the 3-D structure of every known protein
Artificial IntelligenceOctober 27, 2022
AI Predicts What Chemicals Will Smell like to a Human
A new computer model “maps” odor molecules to differentiate among those that have meaty, powdery, sweet and many other scents
OpinionOctober 19, 2022
AI in Medicine Is Overhyped
AI models for health care that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest. Here’s why