Adam Becker’s new book, More Everything Forever, investigates the dangers of a billionaire-driven tomorrow, in which trillions of humans live in space, served by AI.
AI models are growing ever-more capable, accurate and impressive. The question of if they represent “general intelligence” is increasingly moot.
AI medical benchmark tests fall short because they don’t test efficiency on real tasks such as writing medical notes, experts say.
New brain-inspired hardware, architectures and algorithms could lead to more efficient, more capable forms of AI.
Defining AI chatbot personality could be based on how a bot “feels” about itself or on how a person feels about the bot they’re interacting with.
AI has the potential to make health care more effective, equitable and humane. Whether the tech delivers on these promises remains to be seen.
AI is as good as clinicians at interpreting mammograms, a cancer study with nearly 500,000 participants in Germany suggests.
A machine learning algorithm identified the top five flavor notes in 16 types of whiskey. Each matched the aggregate of what a panel of human pros said.
Generative AI and the hype around it has rung in excitement and alarm bells this year. Here’s how to consider climate, energy and AI's intersection.
If future AI models are trained on AI-generated content, they could end up producing more bias and nonsense, researchers caution.
