Artificial Intelligence

Human-like machines are coming … slowly, with assistants like Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri the most basic artificial intelligence to emerge. But what about those intelligent robots some fear will take over the world? Don't worry! Live Science has all the latest news and features on discoveries and achievements in the world of A.I.
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AI's 'unsettling' rollout is exposing its flaws. How concerned should we be?
By Stephanie Pappas published
AI isn't close to becoming sentient, but it could be disruptive anyway.

AI is deciphering a 2,000-year-old 'lost book' describing life after Alexander the Great
By Owen Jarus published
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, it carbonized a book on rulers who followed Alexander the Great. Now, machine learning is deciphering the "lost book."

DeepMind AI has discovered the structure of nearly every protein known to science
By Stephanie Pappas published
The DeepMind program AlphaFold has predicted the structures of almost all proteins known to science.

Google AI 'is sentient,' software engineer claims before being suspended
By Brandon Specktor published
Google engineer Blake Lemoine was suspended for sharing transcripts of a conversation with the AI system LaMDA, which he claims is sentient.

Nuclear fusion is one step closer with new AI breakthrough
By Tom Metcalfe published
The green energy revolution promised by nuclear fusion is step closer, thanks to the first successful use of artificial intelligence to shape hydrogen plasmas inside a fusion reactor.

DeepMind cracks 'knot' conjecture that bedeviled mathematicians for decades
By Stephanie Pappas published
The artificial intelligence company DeepMind has teamed up with mathematicians to generate new conjectures in pure mathematics.

William Shatner 'AI' will chat with you about the 'Star Trek' actor's life
By Mindy Weisberger published
Conversational video technology enables AI-powered back-and-forth between viewers and prerecorded responses.

DeepMind says it can predict the shape of every protein in the human body
By Stephanie Pappas published
AI firm DeepMind says it can predict the shape of every protein in the human body and in 20 species of research animals.
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