The recent case of a man making a simulation of his deceased fiancée raises important questions: while AI makes it possible to create “deadbots”, is it ethically desirable or reprehensible to do so?
An image created by DALL-E 2 in response to the prompt ‘a robot hand drawing’.
OpenAI
New software that can generate images and text on command may deliver ‘good enough’ creativity in advertising, copywriting, stock imagery and graphic design.
Scientists hunt for meteorites on the Nansen blue ice area in East Antartica, close to the Belgian Antarctic research station Princess Elisabeth.
BELARE 2019-2020 meteorite recovery expedition on the Nansen Ice Field
Scientists have crafted the world’s first “treasure map” to reveal Antarctica’s meteorites. These chunks of stone-like material could throw light on the mysteries of our early solar system.
Taxonomy, or the study of classifying species, plays a key role in biodiversity conservation.
Aarthi Arunkumar/Moment via Getty Images
Pinpointing the molecular targets behind the subjective effects of psychedelic drugs could help clinicians and researchers better treat psychiatric conditions.
Mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous in Africa.
Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
To date, the program has provided nearly $10 million to roughly 137,000 of the country’s poorest citizens.
Commercial satellite companies provide views once reserved for governments, like this image of a Russian military training facility in Crimea.
Satellite image (c) 2021 Maxar Technologies via Getty Images
National security professionals and armchair sleuths alike are taking advantage of vast amounts of publicly available information and software tools to monitor geopolitical events around the world.
Aroma plays a big role in flavor perception.
Lina Darjan/500px via Getty Images
The ethics of AI are constantly debated. But does anyone ask the AI?
The increasing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in public decision making is raising critical issues around fairness and human rights.
Getty Images
The increasing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in public decision making is raising critical issues around fairness and human rights.
Machine learning systems can now aid human intuition to create mathematical conjectures and proofs.
“Alfie”, a moral choice machine, is pictured in front of an important question during a press conference in Germany.
Arne Dedert/picture alliance via Getty Images
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.
Public health officials need to know where to focus their vaccination outreach efforts.
AP Photo/Teresa Crawford
Machine learning algorithms can help public health officials identify areas of high vaccine hesitancy by ZIP code to better target messaging and outreach and counter misinformation.
Art historians have long used traditional X-rays, X-ray fluorescence or infrared imaging to better understand artists’ techniques.
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Wikimedia Commons
Breathless headlines of artificial intelligence discovering or restoring lost works of art ignore the fact that these machines rarely, if ever, reveal one secret or solve a single mystery.