Artificial Intelligence

As AI-generated content fills the Internet, it’s corrupting the training data for models to come. What happens when AI eats itself?

The U.S. ignored Oppenheimer’s warnings about nuclear weapons and rushed to build and deploy a dangerous technology. We must not make the same mistake with AI

Here’s what’s behind the A.I technology that has worried so many actors—including something called “the orb.”

Motion capture and detailed face scans allow TV and film production teams to replicate a performer’s likeness. Generative AI is making the process faster and easier

AI chatbots blur the line between intimacy and secrecy, posing risks for users with national security interests and access to sensitive information

Here’s how large language models, or LLMs, actually work. 

Artificial intelligence taps historical weather data in forecasting, but the changing climate is complicating such efforts

Some fear that artificial intelligence will threaten humanity’s survival. But the existential risk is more philosophical than apocalyptic

As the threat of antibiotic resistance increases, new antibiotics are imperative—and AI could widen the pipeline

A new study suggests AI can analyze cardiac activity to predict whether a song will be a hit before it’s released. But some hit-song scientists are skeptical

In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never do it perfectly, but a new study shows it’s possible for machines

Large language models such as ChatGPT tend to make things up. A new approach now allows the systems to explain their responses—at least partially