Artificial Intelligence
Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient: Why That Matters
Is it possible for an artificial intelligence to be sentient?
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AI Learns What an Infant Knows about the Physical World
A computer model simulating how objects react to physical forces approximates how babies understand their surroundings
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Artificial General Intelligence Is Not as Imminent as You Might Think
A close look reveals that the newest systems, including DeepMind’s much-hyped Gato, are still stymied by the same old problems
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We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself—Then We Tried to Get It Published
An artificially intelligent first author presents many ethical questions—and could upend the publishing process
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Who Is Liable When AI Kills?
We need to change rules and institutions while still promoting innovation to protect people from faulty AI
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AI Can Predict Potential Nutrient Deficiencies from Space
New work maps a region’s nutrient landscape
Consciousness
We Shouldn’t Try to Make Conscious Software—Until We Should
Eventually, the most ethical option might be to divert all resources toward building very happy machines
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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
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?
Economics
An Old-Fashioned Economic Tool Can Tame Pricing Algorithms
Left unchecked, pricing algorithms might unintentionally discriminate and collude to fix prices
Defense
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
Animals
AIs Spot Drones with Help from a Fly Eye
A new bio-inspired algorithm picks out the signal from the noise
Climate Change
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
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AI-Influenced Weapons Need Better Regulation
The weapons are error-prone and could hit the wrong targets
Artificial Intelligence
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.
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Humans Find AI-Generated Faces More Trustworthy Than the Real Thing
Viewers struggle to distinguish images of sophisticated machine-generated faces from actual humans
Neuroscience
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 Intelligence
How AI Could Prevent the Development of New Illicit Drugs
The DarkNPS algorithm has predicted the formulas of millions of potential drugs
Biotech
A Portable MRI Makes Imaging More Democratic
An open-source approach downsizes today’s clunking behemoths with permanent magnets and deep-learning algorithms
Robotics
Evolution Gym Sculpts Novel Robot Bodies and Brains
The virtual robots look weird, but they get the job done
