Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is here, and it's transforming every aspect of science. From Google’s DeepMind discovering the structure of nearly every known protein to AI deciphering a 2,000-year-old "lost book," new and future computer systems that can outperform humans have near-infinite applications.
But how concerned should we be with the rollout of AI, and what impact could this have on our world? Live Science's expert writers and editors search for answers to these questions and keep you tuned in to the wildest developments in machine learning with the latest AI news, articles and features.
Latest about Artificial Intelligence
Claude 3 Opus has stunned AI researchers with its intellect and 'self-awareness' — does this mean it can think for itself?
By Roland Moore-Coyler published
Anthropic's AI tool has beaten GPT-4 in key metrics and has a few surprises up its sleeve — including pontificating about its existence and realizing when it was being tested.
Scientists create 'toxic AI' that is rewarded for thinking up the worst possible questions we could imagine
By Drew Turney published
Researchers at MIT are using AI to train AI not to give toxic responses, using a new method that replicates human curiosity.
Google builds an AI model that can predict future weather catastrophes
By Drew Turney published
A new system uses generative AI to predict weather faster and more cheaply than ever — while detecting difficult-to-spot extreme weather events — beating the world's major weather agencies.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
By Edd Gent published
This exciting field of computer science focuses on technologies that mimic human intelligence — with AI systems becoming way more prevalent in recent years.
'Jailbreaking' AI services like ChatGPT and Claude 3 Opus is much easier than you think
By Drew Turney published
AI researchers found they could dupe an AI chatbot into giving a potentially dangerous response to a question by feeding it a huge amount of data it learned from queries made mid-conversation.
MIT scientists have just figured out how to make the most popular AI image generators 30 times faster
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Scientists have built a framework that gives generative AI systems like DALL·E 3 and Stable Diffusion a major boost by condensing them into smaller models — without compromising their quality.
Scientists create AI models that can talk to each other and pass on skills with limited human input
By Roland Moore-Coyler published
Scientists modeled human-like communication skills and the transfer of knowledge between AIs — so they can teach each other to perform tasks without a huge amount of training data.
Researchers gave AI an 'inner monologue' and it massively improved its performance
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Scientists trained an AI system to think before speaking with a technique called QuietSTaR. The inner monologue improved common sense reasoning and doubled math performance.
AI singularity may come in 2027 with artificial 'super intelligence' sooner than we think, says top scientist
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
We could build an AI that demonstrates generalized, human-level intelligence within three to eight years — which may open the door to a "super intelligence" in a very short space of time.
New AI image generator is 8 times faster than OpenAI's best tool — and can run on cheap computers
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Scientists used "knowledge distillation" to condense Stable Diffusion XL into a much leaner, more efficient AI image generation model that can run on low-cost hardware.
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