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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Mysterious, Ancient Radio Signals Keep Pelting Earth. Astronomers Designed an AI to Hunt Them Down.

By Rafi Letzter

AI Created a 3D Replica of Our Universe. We Have No Idea How It Works.

By Stephanie Pappas

The first artificial intelligence-created universe is almost as mysterious as the real thing.

AI Listened to People's Voices. Then It Generated Their Faces.

By Mindy Weisberger

Successful results matched some of the speakers' physical characteristics.

This Animated Mona Lisa Was Created by AI, and It Is Terrifying

By Mindy Weisberger

A neural network helped Mona Lisa get in touch with her feelings.

Why Is This Viral Image of Unrecognizable Objects So Creepy?

By Mindy Weisberger

What do you see in this picture? Are you sure?

AI Is Good (Perhaps Too Good) at Predicting Who Will Die Prematurely

By Mindy Weisberger

Medical researchers have unlocked an unsettling ability in artificial intelligence.

AI Sucks at Making Adorable Cat Photos, Clearly Misses the Entire Point of the Internet

By Mindy Weisberger

When neural networks attempted to create images of cats, the results were cat-astrophic.

Scientists used machine learning to reveal that quantum particles shooting out from the center form a pattern that resembles a turtle. Warmer colors indicate more activity.

A Computer Spotted a Turtle Hiding Out in a Cloud of 'Quantum Fireworks'

By Rafi Letzter

Scientists couldn't find the pattern in these strange clouds of quantum fireworks. So they enlisted a computer, and it noticed a hidden turtle.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Algorithms Can Be Racist. Here's Why She's Right.

By Maya Kosoff

Algorithms rely on humans to feed them training data and help them interpret the world, so is it really that surprising that they reflect the biases of the humans who code them?

Austrian-born mathematician Kurt Godel at the Institute of Advanced Study.

Mathematicians Discovered a Computer Problem that No One Can Ever Solve

By Rafi Letzter

Researchers working on machine learning have discovered a problem that no one, anywhere in the universe, will ever be able to solve.

AI Can Now Decode Words Directly from Brain Waves

By Rafi Letzter

The technology could help people with diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) speak via a brain-computer interface.

Parisian art collective Obvious created this "Portrait of Edmond De Belamy" using artificial intelligence.

Creepy AI-Created Portrait Fetches $432,500 at Auction

By Jeanna Bryner

It's the arrival of artificial intelligence in the art world.

Portrait 'Painted' by AI Up for Auction at Christie's in NYC

By Mindy Weisberger

AI portraiture is taking the art world by storm.

A murderous computer named HAL in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968).

How Close Are We to Kubrick's AI-Controlled Vision of the Future?

By Mindy Weisberger

AI like the malevolent HAL in the movie "2001" are already among us.

The Andromeda galaxy and everything else in the known universe, including us, could be part of an advanced simulation. Indeed, this is the most probable scenario, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on comedian Joe Rogan's podcast on Sept. 7, 2018.

We're Probably Living in a Simulation, Elon Musk Says

By Mike Wall

The world's first robot citizen, Sophia speaks at the Brain Bar festival in Budapest, Hungary.

Here's What Sophia, the First Robot Citizen, Thinks About Gender and Consciousness

By Chelsea Gohd

Can robots have gender? Sophia has an opinion.

What If AI Psychopath 'Norman' and Amazon's Alexa Got Together?

By William Michael Carter

Who's values would win out?

How Theoretical Physicists Can Help Find E.T.

By Hanneke Weitering

If and when humans discover extraterrestrial intelligence, should we expect to find it in the form of biological brains or artificially intelligent robots?