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The shortcuts made when AI was being developed can guide society’s responses to the technology.
The sky is big and full of information that AI tools can help astronomers unlock.
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Artificial intelligence tools are making waves in almost every aspect of life, and astronomy is no different. An astronomer explains the history and future of AI in understanding the universe.
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if a machine can ascribe intent to the events and experiences befalling it, this raises the question of identity and what it means to be aware of oneself and others
SAURON: radio intensity (purple) from MeerKAT overlaid on an optical image from the Dark Energy Survey.
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Machine learning is becoming an indispensable tool in astronomy by sorting through enormous datasets from telescopes.
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Pausing AI development will give our governments and culture time to catch up with and steer the rush of new technology.
Sandhill cranes flying above the Platte River in Nebraska.
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Machine learning may not seem to have much connection with wildlife, but it’s starting to play a central role in bird conservation.
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
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Our tendency to view machines as people and become attached to them points to real risks of psychological entanglement with AI technology.
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An automatic system to determine political ideology from online posts could be a powerful tool against online radicalisation.
It wouldn’t take much to turn this remotely operated mobile machine gun into an autonomous killer robot.
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The technology exists to build autonomous weapons. How well they would work and whether they could be adequately controlled are unknown. The Ukraine war has only turned up the pressure.
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There won’t be an easy tech fix for the questions about authorship raised by ChatGPT and other text generators.
The new study analysed data gathered at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.
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Can artificial intelligence transform the search for alien intelligence?
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AI’s ability to identify ‘technosignatures’ missed by classical algorithms is an exciting step forward for radio astronomers.
Counterfactuals are claims about what would happen, were something to occur in a different way. For instance, we can ask what the world would be like had the internet never been developed.
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AI models are increasingly being used to make important decision about people’s lives – just take Robodebt. Yet the complexity of these systems means we hardly understand them.
These faces may look realistic, but they were generated by a computer.
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People often struggle to distinguish between real faces and artificial ones made by a computer.
Driving into floodwater, as this vehicle did in Sonoma County, Calif., on Jan. 5, 2023, can be extremely dangerous.
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The majority of flood-related deaths involve vehicles in water. What if flood models could warn of the risks street by street using real-time storm forecasts? Machine learning can make it possible.
US health data pioneer Ernest Codman at work on his national registry of patient outcomes, 1925.
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To understand the potential for machine learning to transform medicine, we must go back to the controversial origins of data use in healthcare
Could AI be your next colleague – or replacement?
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Now that AI systems can generate realistic images and convincing prose, are creative and knowledge workers endangered or poised for productivity gains? A panel of experts says it’s not so clear-cut.
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From ChatGPT to Lensa, it feels like AI is here to take over. But despite some impressive results, such systems still have plenty of limitations.
France’s goalkeeper #01 Hugo Lloris (C) jumps for the ball during the Qatar 2022 World Cup quarter-final football match between England and France at the Al-Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, north of Doha, on December 10, 2022.
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After Brazil’s exit, who might be on course to win in 2022? Experts crunch 150 years of big data to predict the winner.
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The newest OpenAI text-generator is a marked improvement over its predecessor – but it still has its pitfalls.