Alexa, what’s the future of digital assistants? I don’t how Alexa would answer that question. But looking at the number of top A.I. minds who have recently left big tech companies to create well-funde...
Nasa has recently announced US$600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending swarms of miniature swimming robots (known as independent micro-swimmers) to explore oceans ben...
A Google employee raised the alarm about a chatbot he believes is conscious. A philosopher asks if he was right to do so There’s a children’s toy, called the See ’n Say, which haunts the memories of m...
Abstract Building artificial intelligence (AI) that aligns with human values is an unsolved problem. Here we developed a human-in-the-loop research pipeline called Democratic AI, in which reinforcemen...
Artificial intelligence (AI) can devise methods of wealth distribution that are more popular than systems designed by people, new research suggests. The findings, made by a team of researchers at UK-b...
A vast team of over 400 researchers recently released a new open-access study on the performance of recent, popular text-based AI architectures such as GPT, the Pathways Language Model, the (recently ...
IN BRIEF Numerous people start to believe they’re interacting with something sentient when they talk to AI chatbots, according to the CEO of Replika, an app that allows users to design their own...
AI is making huge strides in the global industries. Business leaders from all over the world are striving to deploy AI and leverage the benefits that this technology to ensure that they gain an edge o...
Pioneering reparations programmes meant to address decades of US housing discrimination against Black homebuyers could get a boost from AI decision making An artificial intelligence could guide repara...
We all know technology is a driver of change. Much of the development and improvements we’ve seen in the healthcare industry today as compared to 20, 10, or even five years ago, have been a direct res...
There is no denying the appeal of shopping online. The ability to sift through thousands of items and ship them to your home with just a click of a button is easy and convenient. But there is a reason...
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Scientists are looking for a way to predict crime using, you guessed it, artificial intelligence. There are loads of studies that show using AI to predict crime results in consistently racist outcomes...
Researchers at China’s Hefei Comprehensive National Science Centre claim to have built artificial intelligence that can read facial expressions and brain waves to gauge how attentive Communist Party m...
It’s simple: In financial services, customer data offers the most relevant services and advice. But, oftentimes, people use different financial institutions based on their needs – their mortgage with ...