Artificial Intelligence
Blue soybeans? Orange wheat? How a gene-edited splash of color could make robotic weeding much easier
Genetically engineering crops to be colourful could help farmers produce food without using herbicides, as it would make it easier ...
What is the meaning of life? Artificial intelligence is trying to find out
It took humans 134 years to discover Norn cells. Last summer, computers in California discovered them on their own in ...
Superintelligence, superlongevity and superhappiness: How billionaire transhumanists want to converge humanity and artificial intelligence
Many prominent people in the tech industry have talked about the increasing convergence between humans and machines in coming decades ...
‘Pesticides of tomorrow’: Bayer uses AI to develop next-generation pesticides, targeting 2030 for roll-out
They are now doing "computational biochemistry", manipulating virtual molecules instead of plants. In the laboratory of chemist Bayer in Lyon, ...
AI-powered patch that reads throat muscle movements can potentially restore speech for people with voice disorders
AI-powered patch reads throat muscle movements, potentially restoring speech for people with voice disorders ...
AI and race: This bot can sniff out depression based on your social media posts — but only if you’re white
Over the years, scientists had developed methods to identify depression by analyzing the language people use in social media posts ...
War and artificial intelligence: Who’s to blame when something goes wrong?
States and civil society have taken up the question of intelligent autonomous weapons as a matter of serious concern ...
Can AI accurately guess your sexual orientation by scanning your brain?
A recent study investigated whether sexual orientation can be reliably predicted, based solely on a brief five-minute brain scan ...
Generative AI’s energy-gobbling needs may pose a climate change problem
This is the first time the carbon emissions caused by using an AI model for different tasks have been calculated ...
Risk of breast cancer coming back? AsymMirai AI compares breasts to more accurately predict cancer 5-years out
New way of using AI can predict breast cancer 5 years in advance — and unlike previous AI models, we ...
Curious what chickens cluck about? AI is decoding the language of poultry
Understanding chickens' vocalizations can transform our approach to poultry farming, enhancing their welfare and quality of life ...
Microsoft AI image generator ‘randomly creates violent and sexual imagery,’ whistleblower alleges
Microsoft's AI text-to-image generator, Copilot Designer, appears to be heavily filtering outputs after being warned it would do so ...
Viewpoint: My scientific paper was accused of ChatGPT plagiarism. Here’s how I proved my innocence
A journal reviewer accused Lizzie Wolkovich of using ChatGPT to write a manuscript. She hadn’t — but her paper was ...
NewsGuard/BBC Panorama investigation: Trump campaign uses AI to generate fake images of assumptive Republican presidential nominee with Black ‘admirers’
Artificial intelligence tools have been used to generate seemingly authentic images of former U.S. President Donald Trump with Black voters ...
Viewpoint: ‘AI is already humming along in unseen and unregulated ways that touch millions of Americans who may never have heard of ChatGPT’
A growing share of businesses, schools, and medical professionals have quietly embraced generative AI, and there’s really no going back ...
Video: Teaching AI to learn language like a human child to advance understanding of human development
Researchers have been skeptical that recent AI advances can tell us much about human learning and development ...
Combining cutting-edge and low-tech innovation: Tanzania leverages AI to speed up development of climate-proof bean varieties
[At Tanzania Agriculture Research Institute,] TARI partner the Alliance of Bioversity International and [International Center for Tropical Agriculture] CIAT’s trial ...
GLP podcast: Neuralink chip in your brain? CNN’s bunk COVID booster headline; Obesity drugs—the long-term effects
Neuralink has successfully implanted its "brain–computer interface" in a human patient. Elon Musk says the results so far are "promising." ...
Viewpoint: Can AI chatbots understand the words they’re processing?
Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words ...
AI tools are already supercharging online harassment and hate campaigns. Can they be stopped?
A glimpse at how nefarious internet users could employ sophisticated AI tools to supercharge online harassment and hate campaigns ...
Here are the most important Artificial Intelligence innovations to track in 2024
AI’s problems will shape the agenda for researchers, regulators, and the public, not just in 2024 but for years to ...
Podcast: ‘Intelligence explosion’ — Deep space is too far away for humans to explore, but AI may offer a work-around by uploading our brains into the cloud
Futuristic objectives that are at the centre of the AI industry’s quest for superintelligence and hear about the Extropians, ...
Viewpoint: Tech Panic Cycle — AI could transform entertainment, education, health care, unless over wrought fears shut down innovation
Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have heightened imaginations about what the future holds ...
Organs on demand, AI innovation, CRISPR for cholesterol: Top 10 tech breakthroughs of 2023
MIT Technology Review has unveiled its list of the top 10 breakthrough technologies that made headlines in 2023. From cutting-edge ...
Highschoolers used AI to create non-consensual sexually explicit images. Here’s how US lawmakers are responding
Legislators are responding quickly after high school teens used AI to create nonconsensual sexually explicit images ...
