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The age of AI warfare has arrived – and it’s not looking good.
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AI systems will accelerate the pace of war.
Visualising wealth and poverty through AI.
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Researchers fed an advanced AI algorithm with satellite photographs to see if it could identify areas of poverty and it interpreted the data through abstract images.
Hiring algorithms could filter candidates before interviews even take place.
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Effective implementation of existing law can protect us from the risks posed by AI algorithms.
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An automatic system to determine political ideology from online posts could be a powerful tool against online radicalisation.
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.
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.
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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.
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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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From space to the outback, meteorite-tracking tools are building the knowledge we need to prepare for a future asteroid impact.
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.
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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You need an AI and lots of data to work out whether there’s any foul play in a chess game.
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‘Vicootes’, ‘wa ch zod rea’ and other strings of gibberish seem to have special meanings to state-of-the-art AI models. What’s going on here?
Psychedelics have been the subject of a recent surge of interest in their potential therapeutic effects.
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Pinpointing the molecular targets behind the subjective effects of psychedelic drugs could help clinicians and researchers better treat psychiatric conditions.
Aroma plays a big role in flavor perception.
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Pinpointing the chemical compounds that make a fruit tasty to consumers can help producers breed for even more flavorful crops.
“Alfie”, a moral choice machine, is pictured in front of an important question during a press conference in Germany.
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Inclusivity and diversity also need to be at the level of identifying values and defining frameworks of what counts as ethical AI in the first place.
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Individuals who experience suicidal thoughts can show signs of this in the language they use. We analysed more than 100 suicide notes to find these language patterns.