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A New Study Reveals AI Is Hiding Its True Intent and It's Getting Better At It

The more you try to get AI to talk about what it's doing, the sneakier it gets.

Is AI Moderation a Useful Tool or Another Failed Social Media Fix?

A new study suggests that an optimized AI model could detect harmful social media comments with 87% accuracy.

AI Is Willing to Lie, Cheat, and Manipulate to Win. Now What?

“While directly editing game files might seem unconventional, there are no explicit restrictions against modifying files,” the AI said.

AI Experts Predict Machines Could Outthink Humans by 2040. But Some Are Betting on Even Sooner

The Singularity could be closer than you think.

Unsupervised AI Inspired by Galaxy Mergers Learns Like Humans

An autonomous clustering method mimics natural learning with big potential upsides for truly 'thinking' AI.

AI Is Supposed to Make You More Productive — It's Making You Dumber and Overconfident

Generative AI is supposed to make life easier. It drafts emails, summarizes documents, and even generates creative content, helping you offload some of that dreaded cognitive effort. But according to a new study from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research, it may also be making you dumber in the process. The study, based on a […]

Google’s Gemini AI Just Embarrassed Itself Over Cheese

Google’s flagship AI, Gemini, just flubbed a major Super Bowl ad—claiming Gouda accounts for 50-60% of global cheese consumption.

AI’s Power Demand Was Set to Explode — Then DeepSeek Changed Everything. Or Did It?

DeepSeek may have just upended everything we thought we knew about AI’s power needs. But it's not that straightforward.

Human thought has a speed limit — and it's surprisingly slow

For now, humans remain slow thinkers. We dream faster than we speak. We see more than we can process and we imagine more than we can act upon.

The Future of Robot Swarms Is Here—And It’s Being Controlled by Just One Person. Here's What DARPA Says

Researchers tested whether one person could command a robot swarm of drones and ground vehicles in complex missions.

This AI probably knows where your photos were taken. Should we be worried?

For now, one thing's for sure: there's no turning back on this technology.

AI Designs Computer Chips We Can't Understand — But They Work Really Well

As AI pushes the boundaries of chip design, it raises a dilemma: can we trust systems we don’t fully understand?

These small flying robots could be the pollinators of the future

We're not sure if robot pollinators are a hi-tech revolution or glimpse into dystopia, but either way, they're edging closer to reality.

For better or worse, machine learning is shaping biology research

Machine learning tools can increase the pace of biology research and open the door to new research questions, but the benefits don’t come without risks.

AI thought X-rays are connected to eating refried beans or drinking beer

Instead of finding true medical insights, these algorithms sometimes rely on irrelevant factors — leading to misleading results.

"Please die. Please," AI tells student. "You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed"

The Michigan student got a chilling message from an AI chatbot.

Fast fashion company replaces models with AI and brags about it

The clothes they are "wearing" are real. But everything else is very, very fake.

Chat GPT's new O1 model escaped its environment to complete "impossible" hacking task -- should we be concerned?

The model unnervingly bypassed the intended restrictions of its virtual environment to solve a problem.

We've got some major AI ethics blind spots and we're running out of time to fix them

AI brings important environmental and ethical problems.

New AI can make 'zoom and enhance' satellite imagery, making it sharper and more useful

This could be a game changer for satellite monitoring.

AI technology can now translate thoughts into words, and this is incredibly useful in some situations

It relies on a transformer model, such as the one that powers ChatGPT.

AI can now detect colds by analyzing the tone of voice

Researchers decode how a cold voice differs from a healthy one.

This award-winning photography was made by AI. Its creator says we need to talk about it

The photo was meant to stir up a debate -- and that it did.

This AI could save your life by detecting lung cancer early

AI increases the chance of detecting lung nodules, which also sometimes hint at lung cancer.

Six major tech companies pledge not to weaponize AI, but will politicians follow their lead?

With AI and robots becoming increasingly capable, such pledges are more and more important.

Watch out, Messi: artificial intelligence has finally learned to play football

An artificial intelligence worked through decades' worth of soccer matches in just a few weeks, learning how to play the game.

This free AI tool restores old and deteriorated photos in an instant

Time to dust off those old family photos in the attic.

This DALL-E mini AI can create original digital paintings of anything -- so why is it obsessed with women in saris?

Try DALL E mini and you'll be obsessed too.

An AI-based voice program did the dialog delivery for Val Kilmer in Top Gun: Maverick

AI is emerging as a useful technology for voice dubbing in films, and looks like even Tom Cruise loves it.

So what happens when a robot files for a patent?

Existing laws only allow for humans as creators -- but some are fighting to change this.

AI is playing an increasingly important role in diagnostic services in healthcare

New research is showcasing how facial features can be used to improve our diagnosis of rare genetic diseases.

Better than Photoshop: AI synthesizes and edits complex images from a text description -- and they're mind-bogglingly good

I'd like a corgi wearing a red bowtie and a purple party hat, please.

AI completes Beethoven's unfinished 10th Symphony

Humans and machines joined hands to fill in the blanks in Beethoven's last symphony.

AI debates its own ethics at Oxford University, concludes the only way to be safe is "no AI at all"

Who better to answer the pros and cons of artificial intelligence than an actual AI?

How AI is impacting the video game industry

AI promises to bring more interactivity and more enjoyable experiences to video games.

New AI approach can spot anomalies in medical images with better accuracy

It can reduce the workload of physicians and improve the results of image analysis.

The secret to van Gogh's success and other hot streaks? Creative exploration

Creative success is exceptionally rare, but there may be a formula to it.

Machine learning tool 99% accurate at spotting early signs of Alzheimer's in the lab

That's one job the robots can take, then.

AI helps NASA look at the Sun with new eyes

Hindsight is 20/20 -- and so is a telescope equipped with AI.

AI reveals new details about Dead Sea Scrolls scribes

Although this ancient Hebrew text is written in the same handwriting, a computer algorithm was able to spot two distinct scribes.

Portrait-to-animation AI brings to life Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, and more

This is very surreal.

AI traffic management could finally declog urban roads

How AI is poised to revamp traffic management.

This AI module can create stunning images out of any text input

"an illustration of a baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog" "a lovestruck cup of boba" "a snail made of harp"

Upheaval at Google signals pushback against biased algorithms and unaccountable AI

AIs appear to systematically disadvantage minorities and economically marginalised people.

AI makes stunning protein folding breakthrough -- but not all researchers are convinced

DeepMind's AlphaFold claims to have solved a 50-year-old challenge of protein structure.

Text AI can produce images -- and it's very good at it

AI is already nearing sci-fi territory.

AI identifies prostate cancer with stunning accuracy

This could complement medical workforce and act as a failsafe mechanism.

Robot teches itself to do sutures by watching YouTube videos

Robots are far away from replacing doctors, but they're still nifty.

Artificial Intelligence is helping economists devise a fairer tax system

Artificial algorithms could make our economy more human and fair.

More than 24,000 AI-readable coronavirus scientific articles go online

The sum of human knowledge on the new coronavirus is now online, in a format readable by artificial intelligence.

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