Artificial Intelligence
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AI is transforming every aspect of science. Here's how.
By Saikiran Chandha published
In the future, research labs will embrace the transformative potential of artificial intelligence to tackle wicked problems and speed up scientific discovery.
AI chatbot ChatGPT can't create convincing scientific papers… yet
By Harry Baker published
A computer model created by researchers can detect ChatGPT-generated fake studies more than 99% of the time, a new study shows.
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.
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