Artificial Intelligence

The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar

Science writer David Berreby shares his personal journey with griefbots and discusses how they can offer unexpected comfort, insight and connection in the wake of loss.

The popularization of the term “slop” for AI output follows a centuries-long pattern where new tools flood the zone, audiences adapt and some of tomorrow’s art emerges from today’s excess

A noninvasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world

A personal experiment with the artificial intelligence music platform Suno’s latest model echoes a new preprint study. Most listeners can’t tell AI music from the real thing, but emotional resonance still demands a human story

Faced with her son’s struggle with dyslexia, one mom built an AI platform to help kids learn their own way

Forget fake profile pics on dating apps—AI is now doing the talking, and we can’t tell the difference

New video apps like Sora could turn faces into moneymaking assets and hint at a future where everyone can rent out their digital likeness

A decades-old technique from network science saw something in the papal conclave that AI missed

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Cat bathroom data from an AI-powered litter box could offer useful pet health insights

Some researchers think artificial intelligence could produce Nobel-worthy research, but others question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable