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Ada Lovelace said computers could not invent. But a century later, Alan Turing pointed out inventiveness in machines could be found in their capacity to produce surprising and innovative results.
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The newest OpenAI text-generator is a marked improvement over its predecessor – but it still has its pitfalls.
A synthetic image generated by mimicking real faces, left, and a synthetic face generated from the text prompt ‘a photo of a 50-year-old man with short black hair,’ right.
Hany Farid using StyleGAN2 (left) and DALL-E (right)
Text-to-image generators like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion portend a future where anyone with a computer can fake a photograph of just about anything.
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The story of Meta’s latest AI model shows the pitfalls of machine learning – and a disregard for potential risks.
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Artificial intelligence could help create transparency and consistency in the legal system – our model shows how.
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The AI leans on a particular tactic for its success. If you knew what it was, beating it would get drastically easier.
A camera mounted on the tip of one of the Orion capsule’s solar array wings captured this footage of the spacecraft and the Moon
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Artemis-1 is on its way back to Earth, successfully completing its maiden flight.
A device like this could one day monitor and assess your health.
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A type of computer chip that mimics both the skin and brain could pave the way for wearable devices that monitor and analyze health data using AI right on the body.
The Reface App on a smartphone.
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Despite their dangers, highly realistic deepfake images and videos are finding positive uses in the creative arts.
Many AI algorithms, like facial recognition software, have been shown to be discriminatory to people of color.
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Many AI algorithms, like facial recognition software, have been shown to be discriminatory to people of color, especially those who are Black.
A close encounter between a white shark and a surfer.
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Discerning whether that dark splodge in the water is a shark or just, say, seaweed isn’t always straightforward. In reasonable conditions, drone pilots get it right only 60% of the time.
Predictive policing may be a useful addition to traditional policing in contexts like South Africa.
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Predictive policing has improved in leaps and bounds and become increasingly automated thanks to big data, data mining and powerful computers.
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Would an advanced AI try to take over the world? If it uses a common approach called ‘reinforcement learning’, the answer is almost certainly yes.
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Artificial Intelligence has great potential to save the lives of mental health patients.
Is living in a language-rich world enough to teach a child grammatical language?
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Linguists have long considered grammar to be the glue of language, and key to how children learn it. But new prose-writing AIs suggest language experience may be more important than grammar.
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Potholes have appeared seemingly everywhere after the intense rains. They’re annoying and expensive to fix. But there may be a better way.
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In the age of AI image generation, believing your own eyes may not hold the same weight it once used to.
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Uber, Amazon and airlines are already using AI for classic managers’ tasks like hiring and firing staff.
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‘HAL the computer approaching through the foggy morning mist’.
My first image requests were whimsical queries, nocturnal flights of fancy, gentle tentative casts into the virtual spirit world.
AI artists.
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A newcomer to the Artificial Intelligence art market, Stable Diffusion, can create images almost indistinguishable from human artwork.