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
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.
AI chatbots need to be much better at remembering things. Have scientists just cracked their terrible memory problem?
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
AI chatbots can't remember things well. However, scientists might have fixed AI's critical short-term memory issue, while OpenAI is also beginning to roll out long-term memory for ChatGPT.
New Chinese AI model 'better than industry leader' in key metrics
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
The newly announced Spark v3.5 can beat OpenAI's GPT-4 in language workloads, among other areas, and can synthesize human speech that conveys different emotions, tones and speech patterns, its creators claim.
Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and better hide its bad behavior from the researchers.
Artificial general intelligence — when AI becomes more capable than humans — is just moments away, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg declares
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Mark Zuckerberg said Meta will have "an absolutely massive amount of infrastructure" in place by the end of the year to prime it for training an artificial general intelligence model.
Scientists used AI to build a low-lithium battery from a new material that took just hours to discover
By Victoria Atkinson published
Microsoft's AI tool narrowed 32 million theoretical materials down to 18 in just 80 hours — with scientists synthesizing one that can reduce Lithium usage in batteries by 70%.
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