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Chat GPT's new O1 model escaped its environment to complete "impossible" hacking task -- should we be concerned?

The model unnervingly bypassed the intended restrictions of its virtual environment to solve a problem.

Key Facts About the Safety of AI-Powered Cars

AI is upon us. Self-driving cars have been touted as the next big thing for years. The marriage between the two appears as promising as ever and yet — are AI cars actually a thing? The automotive industry has significantly changed in recent years. Cars have become smarter, more technologized, and all the more complex. […]

This AI will let you listen to one person and mute everyone else in a crowd

When you pair this AI with noise-canceling headphones, it allows you to listen to only the person you want to talk to in a crowd.

This Robot Dentist Just Performed Its First Procedure on a Human—Here’s What You Need to Know

The robot dentist can fix your cavities in 15 minutes. But would you trust it?

AI Expert Ray Kurzweil Says We’re Just Years Away from Human-Level AI (And This Could Change Everything)

Ray Kurzweil envisions a future where our minds merge seamlessly with machines, unlocking a new era of intelligence and immortality —but at what cost?

DeepMind AI Matches Top Students in Solving Math Olympiad Problems

DeepMind's AI achieves medal-level performance in the International Mathematical Olympiad

AI could make robot warehouses a reality

Special algorithms were able to find solutions to an immensely complex logistics problem.

SuperAnimal: An AI model that anyone can use to understand animal behavior

Animals can't talk or express their feelings but an AI can help us understand their behavior.

ChatGPT discriminates against CVs that imply a disability

We're blindly using AI in more and more fields — but we don't really understand the consequences.

Can an AI trainer help bring robotic exoskeletons to the masses?

AI could help train exoskeletons adapt to individual users quicker and more reliably.

Real photo wins award in AI-generated photo competition and it's all the irony we needed

We've come full circle.

Researchers use AI to try and decode dog vocalizations

We won't have a dog translator anytime soon, but we're slowly understanding man's best friend.

AI Reveals Nearly One Million Potential Antibiotics to Fight Drug-Resistant Superbugs

Researchers identify over 800,000 antimicrobial peptides using AI.

These AI headphones let you listen to a single person in a crowd or noisy area

With these headphones, all it takes is a brief glance at the desired speaker to isolate their voice.

How AI can accelerate health software design

AI technology speeds up the creation of diabetes prevention tools, with broader disruption anticipated across other fields.

AI chatbots turn conspiracy theorists into skeptics through dialogue

Addressing conspiracy beliefs with tailor-made counterevidence delivered via AI chatbot works remarkably well.

Talking whales? AI reveals a complex language hidden in sperm whale clicks

AI reveals that sperm whale clicks form a complex language, not all that different from human speech

Human pilots face an AI-controlled jet for the first time in a real-world dogfight

The outcome of the dogfight is classified. But everybody now knows that AI is capable of flying fighter jets.

Zoom and enhance: Adobe AI sharpens videos by up to 8 times the original resolution with minimal artifacts

You can now turn old low-res videos into 4K.

AI is starting to make coffee — and it's really good at it

It's only natural that something like this would happen in Finland.

How AI is coming for Wall Street and slashing jobs for analysts

Is the financial job market on the brink of a dystopia?

AI development is spurring more PCB demand than ever

It's not just semiconductors. Even the basics of electronics are being put to the test.

This poison shooting robot could be the future of agriculture

It identifies weeds and then precisely hits them with poison.

Scientists brew the future with AI that 'tastes' Belgian beer to make it better

Belgian scientists use AI to predict and improve beer flavors.

Google's new flood AI can predict risk even where no data flows

AI can help us take a more proactive stance in disaster preparedness.

AI ghostbots are digitally reviving the dead. But is this a good thing?

Deepfakes don't just mimick the living. They can be used to resurrect the dead.

Google's AI is now suggesting new football tactics

Football (or soccer) is about to get a lot more tactical.

Researchers create smartphone app that can diagnose depression from facial features

Detecting depression in its earlier stages is a big challenge.

AI companies plan to use nuclear energy for their energy-hungry data centers. But should they?

AI data centers may require 2.5 times more electricity than conventional data centers. Where will all this extra electricity come from?

New chess AI achieves top human performance without even looking for the best move

Without any explicit search, the engine is able to reach Grandmaster performance levels.

AI can now tell which wine comes from what vineyard — and which wine is fake

There's a new algorithm in town, and it's got a nose for red wine.

Cars can hallucinate, too — and it's a problem

Self-driving cars have even more problems to deal with.

Hackers can still spy on you even if you cover the webcam. Here's how

Ambient light sensors in smartphones could pose unexpected privacy risks.

Australian television mistakenly used AI to doctor the body and clothes of politician

You know all those times we were warned about AI-manipulated images? Well... they're here.

Cheap Robo-chef autonomously cooks a three-course Asian menu, cleans up after itself

The autonomous robot is remarkably dexterous around the kitchen.

Your fingerprints are not unique, new AI finds

An AI program reveals a shocking secret about human fingerprints that even forensic scientists found shocking.

This was the year when image-creating AIs got crazy good

About one year ago, groundbreaking image-generation AI hit the stage — and they hit it in style. AI image creators, once a novel technology, have evolved into sophisticated tools and they’re already making an impact on the world. “Even for laypeople not blessed with artistic talent and without special computing know-how and computer hardware, the […]

From hallucinations to discovery: For the first time a large language model finds new solutions to math problems

DeepMind's FunSearch revolutionizes AI, mastering complex challenges like the Cap Set Problem and ushering in a new age of machine-led scientific breakthroughs."

New app from Microsoft narrates the world for blind and low vision people

It was already available on iOS and it’s now also on Android.

This attractive Spanish model makes over $1,000 per ad — and she's AI generated

We're only seeing the tip of the iceberg of how industries are using generative AI.

New "Student of Games" algorithm leaps between chess and poker, and hints at generalizable AI

A more generalizable AI doesn't look that far off.

We've got some major AI ethics blind spots and we're running out of time to fix them

AI brings important environmental and ethical problems.

AI portraits are already more convincing than real photos — but only for white people

We've reached a disturbing tipping point.

Meet Meta’s bizarre million-dollar celebrity AI chatbots

Does Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have a secret plan to replace celebrities with their AI counterparts in the future?

Did life thrive beyond Earth? AI technique may provide some answers

It reveals a sample’s biological or non-biological origin with 90% accuracy

AI destroys human champions in real-world drone racing

It's a huge milestone in AI.

Researchers tried out AI preachers -- and it didn't go so well

AI may look all set to replace human artists, engineers, writers, and coders, but preachers are probably safe.

This award-winning photography was made by AI. Its creator says we need to talk about it

The photo was meant to stir up a debate -- and that it did.

That Pope in a white puffer jacket is fake: AI confusion is upon us

The age of post-truth is upon us.

Adobe launches image-generating AI with subtle jab at competitors

A new AI, coming soon to a Photoshop near you.