We summarize the week's science breakthroughs every Thursday.
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.
By squirting chemicals onto a person’s tongue to taste, a new device aims to replicate food flavors for fuller virtual experiences.
Biohybrid robots made with plant and fungal tissue are more sensitive to their surroundings.
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.
Engineers have all the technology they need to make flying cars, but there are still some barriers to getting these sci-fi mainstays off the ground.
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.
