AI’s Victories in Go Inspire Better Human Game Playing
Famed AI wins in Go let human players rethink their moves in a whole new way
Famed AI wins in Go let human players rethink their moves in a whole new way
“Xenobots” are living, swimming self-powered robots that measure less than a millimeter across. They are evolved by artificial intelligence and built out of frog stem cells—and they could open new medical frontiers...
The program also challenges certain assumptions about self-driving cars
Google, Microsoft and Baidu are using tools similar to ChatGPT to turn Internet searches into a conversation. How will this change humanity’s relationship with machines?
Portable sensors and artificial intelligence are helping researchers decode animal communication—and begin to talk back to nonhumans
A new era in Scientific American audio history is about to drop starting next week. Get ready for a science variety show guaranteed to quench your curiosity in under 10 minutes...
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
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
Scientists cannot always differentiate between research abstracts generated by the AI ChatGPT and those written by humans
We asked the text-generating AI ChatGPT to talk about its own flaws
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 intelligence can improve health, protect biodiversity and even write wine reviews
Machine learning could find the viruses that are most likely to spill over from animals and cause future pandemics
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis explains how its AlphaFold AI program predicted the 3-D structure of every known protein
A new computer model “maps” odor molecules to differentiate among those that have meaty, powdery, sweet and many other scents
AI models for health care that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest. Here’s why
For humanity’s brightest future, the blue-sky, lofty thinkers in AI need the help of the muddy-boots pragmatists
In a field in Oklahoma, researchers are using new technology to spot deadly munitions built to maim and kill
Engineers at the company DeepMind built a machine-learning system based on research on how babies’ brain works, and it did better on certain tasks than its conventional counterparts...
Predicting severity can help address deadly effects to olive groves
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