Researchers are still struggling to understand how AI models trained to parrot internet text can perform advanced tasks such as running code, playing games and trying to break up a marriage...
Flavor is a tricky target, but technology and powerful genetic techniques are making it more feasible to improve the taste of vegetables
A wireless device worn on the face or lip can produce fragrances such as lavender and green tea in a virtual world
King Tut’s bountiful tomb; music from fire
A robotic finger’s supersensitive touches could probe inside body parts and circuits
Bioengineers are drawing on rapidly evolving machine-learning tools, deep reservoirs of data and the firepower of a program called AlphaFold2 to pursue more sophisticated de novo protein designs...
A new bill in California proposes making electric vehicles a backup power source for the electric grid—an idea that has promise but has to overcome several technological hurdles, experts say...
Humans are building meaningful relationships with AI chatbots. What will the consequences be?
Boris Eldagsen submitted an artificial-intelligence-generated image to a photography contest as a “cheeky monkey” and sparked a debate about AI’s place in the art world...
The 1934 puzzle book Cain’s Jawbone stumped all but a handful of humans. Then AI took the case
