Coral reefs share genetic material across wide areas, with help from ocean currents. This ability is especially important during episodes like the mass bleaching currently occurring.
Police efforts to sort through online child sexual exploitation material are being hampered by the rise in AI-generated imagery. Here’s how they’re working to combat the problem.
Covering the ground with rocks is actually a good way to grow some crops in poor soil.
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AI has learned the ins and outs of proteins. Gene editing gives scientists control of life’s molecular machinery. Together they could lead to a revolution in biotechnology.
A rose by any other name would not smell as sweet to a robot.
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AIs that can see and hear have captured the public imagination. A machine learning expert explains why the sense of smell has lagged behind – and why that could change.
If your data was used to train an AI, it might – or might not – be safe from prying eyes.
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Scientists are discovering viral genetic sequences in the wild faster than they can analyze them. A kind of ChatGPT for proteins can help make sense of all that data.
Bias isn’t the only human imperfection turning up in AI.
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‘Uncanny’ AI music generators blur the line between creators and consumers. Will they turn music from high art to an everyday language? Listen to these AI-generated tracks and judge for yourself.
A recent study of the car loans sector showed that a machine learning algorithm could make decisions that were 34% more profitable than salespeople in dealerships.
A new AI system may improve soccer tactics in 90% of corner kicks – but is it ready for the big leagues?
The Vesuvius Challenge incentivizes technological development by inviting researchers to figure out how to ‘read’ ancient papyri excavated from volcanic ash of Mount Vesuvius in Italy. Columns of Greek text retrieved from a portion of a scroll.
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However exciting the technological developments may be, the task of reading and analyzing the Greek and Latin texts recovered from the papyri will fall to human beings.
Seabirds like this sooty shearwater can drown when they become tangled in drift nets and other fishing gear.
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The toll on wildlife from illegal fishing, bycatch and entanglement in fishing gear is likely underestimated, because it doesn’t account for ‘dark’ fishing vessels, a new study finds.
Frank Rosenblatt with the Mark I Perceptron, the first artificial neural network computer, unveiled in 1958.
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Danielle Williams, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Enthusiasm for the capabilities of artificial intelligence – and claims for the approach of humanlike prowess –has followed a boom-and-bust cycle since the middle of the 20th century.