“The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.” ― William S. Burroughs, Naked ...
Most of us have been told by a friend that we have a doppelganger – some stranger they passed on the street who bore an uncanny resemblance to you. But imagine if you could create your very own ...
Microsoft inadvertently learned the risks of creating racist AI, but what happens if you deliberately point the intelligence at a toxic forum? One person found out. As Motherboard and The Verge note, ...
What’s this about: AI-generated media is one tool in the AI arsenal being deployed by governments and independent actors all across the globe. This new and effective tool is often used to target polit...
These strange and insane-looking cameras were created using DALL-E 2, an artificial intelligence program created by OpenAI. The system was announced earlier this year and can create photo-realistic im...
To the average person, it must seem as if the field of artificial intelligence is making immense progress. According to the press releases, and some of the more gushing media accounts, OpenAI’s DALL-E...
An elevator that always seems to be there when you need it. A dentist who rarely, if ever, misses scarcely noticeable cavities. A travel website that books an entire ideal vacation with minimal effort...
A new program developed by Rochester researchers uses machine learning to allow users to improvise duets with an artificial intelligence partner. To play a duet with German composer Johann Sebastian B...
You’ve probably heard for years that the workforce would be supplanted by robots. AI has changed several roles, such as using self-checkouts, ATMs, and customer support chatbots. The goal is not...
The last 10 years have brought tremendous growth in artificial intelligence. Consumer internet companies have gathered vast amounts of data, which has been used to train powerful machine learning prog...
Our podcast on science and technology. This week, we examine the transformative potential of a new, emerging type of machine intelligence—foundation models. Could they become as important, as fundamen...
A Columbia University team has created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that effectively confuses eavesdropping tools that also use AI. The new system used machine learning in a lab setting, but...
AI researcher and YouTuber Yannic Kilcher trained an AI using 3.3 million threads from 4chan’s infamously toxic Politically Incorrect /pol/ board. He then unleashed the bot back onto 4chan with predic...
IN BRIEF AI text-to-image generation models are all the rage right now. You give them a simple description of a scene, such as « a vulture typing on a laptop, » and they come up with an illustration t...
A new initiative to partner with communities working with artificial intelligence and emerging technologies will expand efforts of promoting intellectual property protection in these areas, the US Pat...