We built an AI tool to help set priorities for conservation in Madagascar: what we found
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – models that process large and diverse datasets and make predictions from them – can have many...
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How AI and a popular card game can help engineers predict catastrophic failure – by finding the absence of a pattern
Can you find a matching set? Cmglee/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAHumans are very good at spotting patterns, or repeating features people...
Algorithms that predict crime are watching – and judging us by the cards we’ve been dealt
Jbruiz/ShutterstockYour money, postcode, friends and family can make all the difference to how the criminal system treats you. The New...
Dating apps: Lack of regulation, oversight and competition affects quality, and millions stand to lose
Dating apps have helped people make millions of connections. (Shutterstock)When Aleksandr Zhadan used ChatGPT to talk to over 5,000 women...
Generative AI could leave users holding the bag for copyright violations
How can users of AI tools like OpenAI's Sora video generator be sure they aren't producing copyright-violating content? Drew Angerer/AFP...
AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions
Water is needed for development, production and consumption, yet we are overusing and polluting an unsubstitutable resource and system. Eight...
Treatments tailored to you: how AI will change NZ healthcare, and what we have to get right first
Imagine this: a novel virus is rapidly breaking out nationwide, resulting in an epidemic. The government introduces vaccination mandates and...
Conspiracy theorists seem to favour an intuitive thinking style – here’s why that’s important
Ralf Geithe/ShutterstockI have been researching the psychology of conspiracy beliefs for seven years now and people often ask me why...
AI can help predict whether a patient will respond to specific tuberculosis treatments, paving way for personalized care
Tuberculosis typically infects the lungs but can spread to the rest of the body. stockdevil/iStock via Getty Images PlusTuberculosis is...
Deepfakes are still new, but 2024 could be the year they have an impact on elections
Tero Vesalainen / ShutterstockDisinformation caught many people off guard during the 2016 Brexit referendum and US presidential election. Since then,...
