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Google has not created sentient AI — yet
AI systems can carry on convincing conversations, but they have no understanding of what they're saying. Humans are easily fooled.
Google engineer claims his AI is sentient. It definitely is not
The engineer working on Google's AI, called LaMDA, suffers from what we could call Michelangelo Syndrome. Scientists must beware hubris.
Mechanical Turk: An elaborate 18th-century hoax that played chess like an AI robot
An elaborate device called the Mechanical Turk defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte at chess. Edgar Allan Poe revealed the hoax.
Is your mind just a parasite on your physical body?
What if intelligence can thrive without consciousness?
AI can predict your political ideology using just a brain scan
A deep learning AI running on a supercomputer was able to link patterns of brain connectivity to political ideology.
Thinking fast and slow about ethics: When is it okay to cut in line?
Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.
The study of nonhuman intelligence could be missing major insights
From machines to animals, there are many kinds of possible minds.
Artist Agnieszka Pilat’s strange journey from communist Poland to capitalist San Francisco
The so-called "court painter of Silicon Valley" was shaped by her youth in communist Poland but looks forward to a future ruled by celebrity robots.
Evil twins and digital elves: How the metaverse will create new forms of fraud and deception
The metaverse may leave us perpetually unsure whether the people we encounter are authentic or high-quality fakes.
An optimized solution for face recognition
“We didn’t build anything face-ish into our network [but] managed to segregate themselves without being given a face-specific nudge.”
Synthetic media: How AI-generated characters spread disinformation
AI-generated photos, also known as synthetic media, are being used to create fake experts and journalists to spread disinformation.
Whose ethics should be programmed into the robots of tomorrow?
Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?
People trust AI fake faces more than real ones, study finds
Not only that, but AI learns what type of faces we like.
From drugs to chemical weapons with the flip of an AI switch
One research group's AI-based drug discovery platform could be redesigned to discover VX nerve agent and 40,000 similar chemical weapons.
AI maps psychedelic “trip” experiences to regions of the brain – opening new route to psychiatric treatments
The study shows that it’s possible to map the wildly subjective psychedelic experiences to specific brain regions.
The subtle art of language: why artificial general intelligence might be impossible
Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.
Drones and AI recover a meteorite for the first time
Aerial drone footage was sent to an AI trained to track down space rocks.
A neural network translates pigs’ emotions by listening to their grunts
The A.I. system could improve the lives of commercially raised pigs.
See 25,000 supermassive black holes in one map of the sky
Astronomers used supercomputers and an international network of antennas to create the stunning map.
The Turing test: AI still hasn’t passed the “imitation game”
A computer that could decidedly pass Alan Turing's test would represent a major step toward artificial general intelligence.
Mind of its own: Will “general AI” be like an alien invasion?
According to surveys, approximately half of artificial intelligence experts believe that general AI will emerge by 2060.
Why do people rate AI-generated faces as more trustworthy?
What makes a face trustworthy, anyway?
When should someone trust an AI assistant’s predictions?
Researchers have created a method to help workers collaborate with artificial intelligence systems.
“Hey, Alexa! Are you trustworthy?”
The more social behaviors a voice-user interface exhibits, the more likely people are to trust it, engage with it, and consider it to be competent.
Have chess computers destroyed the game?
What was once an art form has been drained of color and personality by ruthless algorithms. Can we make chess human again?
What AI cannot do
It is often assumed that AI will become so advanced that the technology will be able to do anything. In reality, there are limits.
Batteries are the lump of coal in futurism’s Christmas stocking
A century ago, electric cars were common. The fact that they were almost entirely replaced due to the internal combustion engine is a testament to the glacial pace of battery breakthroughs.
Finally, a sex robot that wants to be your friend
The AI remembers that you are 32 years old and like to eat sushi, except on Thursdays.
Passing the Turing Test: AI creates human-like text
GPT-3, which features 175 billion parameters, just might fool you in a conversation.