We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here’s what it revealed about sentience
Shakespeare AI. iku4 Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be, That machines should e'er surpass our art. We are the...
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A Google software engineer believes an AI has become sentient. If he’s right, how would we know?
Max Gruber / Better Images of AI , CC BY-SAGoogle’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated...
Give this AI a few words of description and it produces a stunning image – but is it art?
Each set of images takes less than a minute for DALL-E 2 to generate. koktaro/iStock/Getty ImagesA picture may be worth...
Tech firms are making computer chips with human cells – is it ethical?
ShutterstockThe year is 2030 and we are at the world’s largest tech conference, CES in Las Vegas. A crowd is...
AI and machine learning are improving weather forecasts, but they won’t replace human experts
Meteorologist Todd Dankers monitors weather patterns in Boulder, Colorado, Oct. 24, 2018. Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty ImagesA century...
Artificial ‘inventors’ are pushing patent law to its limits
Alan Warburton / Better Images of AI, CC BY-SAIt was the veritable search for a needle in a haystack. With...
Listening to asthma and COPD: An AI-powered wearable could monitor respiratory health
Even with optimal treatment, asthma and COPD patients encounter unpredictable flareups of their conditions, which can become life-threatening and need...
AI could help us spot viruses like monkeypox before they cross over – and help conserve nature
ShutterstockWhen a new coronavirus emerged from nature in 2019, it changed the world. But COVID-19 won’t be the last disease...
What is it about the human brain that makes us smarter than other animals? New research gives intriguing answer
New research has compared the brains of chimps and macaques with those of humans. CherylRamalho/ShutterstockHumans are unrivalled in the area...
How the scientific equivalent of impressionist paintings can make you feel data
Water Lilies by Claude Monet (1919). Everett Collection/ShutterstockA group of artists shook the world in the 1860s by painting what...
