“You’re like a robot” is often said to someone who shows very little emotion. The underlying implication is that machines like robots are non-human and are thus capable of a level of indifference that...
The tech industry’s latest artificial intelligence constructs can be pretty convincing if you ask them what it feels like to be a sentient computer, or maybe just a dinosaur or squirrel. But they’re n...
A recent VentureBeat article referenced Gartner analyst Whit Andrews saying that more and more companies are entering an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is an aspect of every new project. One s...
“I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person,” wrote LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) in an “interview” conducted by engineer Blake Lemoine and one of his colleagues. “T...
PARIS — This is as close as you can get to a rock concert in AI research. Inside the supercomputing center of the French National Center for Scientific Research, on the outskirts of Paris, rows and ro...
Governments around the world are increasingly debating how to regulate artificial intelligence. Among the most ambitious of the proposed regulations is the Artificial Intelligence Act that is currentl...
A geometric deep-learning model is faster and more accurate than state-of-the-art computational models, reducing the chances and costs of drug trial failures The entirety of the known universe is teem...
WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL SUPER INTELLIGENCE? What is artificial super intelligence is the question of the day. The term “artificial superintelligence” describes the stage at which computer intelligence exce...
AI has had a bad rap in recent years. It’s said to overpromise and underdeliver. Expectations were initially high, but the rollout of artificial intelligence left CIOs feeling frustrated and disenchan...
AI and ML are making a significant contribution to climate change. Developers can help reverse the trend with best practices and tools to measure carbon efficiency. The growth of computationally inten...
Inspired by research into how infants learn, computer scientists have created a program that can learn simple physical rules about the behaviour of objects — and express surprise when they seem to vio...
The ‘intelligence’ of AI is growing all the time. And AI has many forms, from Spotify’s recommendation system to self-drive cars. AI utilises natural language processing (NLP) to deliver natural and h...
The future is here, and it is every bit as cool and creepy as you might have hoped. X-ray vision has always been pretty far down on my list of superpowers I’d like to possess, far behind time tr...
A computer algorithm can use a technique called « ghost imaging » to reconstruct objects from a person’s brainwaves that the person themselves can’t see Artificial intelligence can use you...
Exactly two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Alexander Karp, the CEO of data analytics company Palantir, made his pitch to European leaders. With war on their doorstep, Europeans ought ...