Artificial IntelligenceMay 4, 2022
How Language-Generation AIs Could Transform Science
An expert in emerging technologies warns that software designed to summarize, translate and write like humans might exacerbate distrust in science
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial IntelligenceApril 29, 2022
AI Sommelier Generates Wine Reviews without Ever Opening a Bottle
A new algorithm writes wine and beer reviews that sound like they were penned by human critics. Is that a good thing?
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EconomicsApril 26, 2022
An Old-Fashioned Economic Tool Can Tame Pricing Algorithms
Left unchecked, pricing algorithms might unintentionally discriminate and collude to fix prices
DefenseApril 21, 2022
AI Drug Discovery Systems Might Be Repurposed to Make Chemical Weapons, Researchers Warn
A demonstration with drug design software shows the ease with which toxic molecules can be generated
AnimalsApril 20, 2022
AIs Spot Drones with Help from a Fly Eye
A new bio-inspired algorithm picks out the signal from the noise
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
OpinionMarch 30, 2022
AI-Influenced Weapons Need Better Regulation
The weapons are error-prone and could hit the wrong targets
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