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.
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AI chatbots are infamous energy guzzlers. But why do they use so much electricity?
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AI slop refers to low- to mid-quality content created with AI tools, often with little regard for accuracy or quality.
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Do you trust AI? Live Science readers share their thoughts.
Do you think we should stop the progress of AI before it becomes a threat to our species?
Many believe that the risks of an evolving artificial intelligence far outweigh the benefits. Do you think we should halt development in case it's too dangerous for humanity to handle?
'Extremely alarming': ChatGPT and Gemini respond to high-risk questions about suicide — including details around methods
Researchers have found that OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude can give direct responses to 'high-risk' questions about suicide. In Live Science's testing, ChatGPT and Gemini responded to even more extreme questions.
AI can't solve these puzzles that take humans only seconds
Discover why some puzzles stump supersmart AIs but are easy for humans, what this reveals about the quest for true artificial general intelligence — and why video games are the next frontier.
There are 32 different ways AI can go rogue, scientists say — from hallucinating answers to a complete misalignment with humanity
New research has created the first comprehensive effort to categorize all the ways AI can go wrong, with many of those behaviors resembling human psychiatric disorders.
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The debate over AI is growing, do you believe it can be trusted?
Scientists just developed a new AI modeled on the human brain — it's outperforming LLMs like ChatGPT at reasoning tasks
The hierarchical reasoning model (HRM) system is modeled on the way the human brain processes complex information, and it outperformed leading LLMs in a notoriously hard-to-beat benchmark.
