artificial intelligence
AI avatars bring deepfakes to the business world
Deepfakes featuring your digital double could replace emails and zoom presentations.
AI discovers new craters on Mars in just five seconds
It could analyze a photo of the Martian surface in just five seconds. NASA scientists need 40 minutes.
The problem of other minds: a disturbing world of polite, smiling zombies
What if you are the only person in the world who can think?
How AI learned to paint like Rembrandt
The Rijksmuseum employed an AI to repaint lost parts of Rembrandt's "The Night Watch." Here's how they did it.
Can AI cameras predict suicide attempts at bridges?
South Korea is piloting a CCTV system it hopes will save lives.
Astronomers train AI to reveal the true shape of galaxies
A new artificial intelligence method removes the effect of gravity on cosmic images, showing the real shapes of distant galaxies.
McDonald’s is replacing human drive-thru attendants with AI
The pilot project is in 10 stores and is 85% accurate.
The future of humanity: can we avert disaster?
Climate change and artificial intelligence pose substantial — and possibly existential — problems for humanity to solve. Can we?
Will AI replace mathematicians?
If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.
Big think: Will AI ever achieve true understanding?
If you ask your maps app to find "restaurants that aren't McDonald's," you won't like the result.
Playlist privacy: You can be identified from just three songs
Companies can identify you from your music preferences, as well as influence and profit from your behavior.
Why the simulation hypothesis is pseudoscience
The simulation hypothesis is fun to talk about, but believing it requires an act of faith.
Dyson spheres: The key to resurrection and immortality?
Creating an afterlife—or a simulation of one—would take vast amounts of energy. Some scientists think the best way to capture that energy is by building megastructures around stars.
Physicist creates AI algorithm that may prove reality is a simulation
A physicist creates an AI algorithm that predicts natural events and may prove the simulation hypothesis.
What early US presidents looked like, according to AI-generated images
"Deepfakes" and "cheap fakes" are becoming strikingly convincing — even ones generated on freely available apps.
The 10 best science and technology books of 2020
Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.
How should human values shape the future of AI?
There’s a fortune to be made in data and silicon, and everyone is out for their share. Artificial intelligence is this century’s gold rush. Its promises scintillate in them there […]
10 ways to prepare for the rise of intelligent machines – MIT study
A new MIT report proposes how humans should prepare for the age of automation and artificial intelligence.
MIT breakthrough in deep learning could help reduce errors
Researchers make the case for "deep evidential regression."
Should facial recognition software be banned on college campuses?
A heated debate is occurring at the University of Miami.
Why aligning AI to our values may be harder than we think
Can we stop a rogue AI by teaching it ethics? That might be easier said than done.
Cornell University program aims to end world hunger in 10 years
Can we end world hunger by 2030? Thanks to a new program, the data for it is all there.
Designer uses AI to bring 54 Roman emperors to life
It's hard to stop looking back and forth between these faces and the busts they came from.
This interactive face recognition tool measures your attractiveness, BMI and age
A new interactive documentary "How Normal Am I?" helps reveal the shortcomings of facial recognition technology.
Universe works like a cosmological neural network, argues new paper
Controversial physics theory says reality around us behaves like a computer neural network.
Is resurrection possible? Researchers catalogue the ways science may achieve it.
From cryonics to time travel, here are some of the (highly speculative) methods that might someday be used to bring people back to life.
Top 5 factors that make or break a relationship, according to AI
A new study used artificial intelligence to analyze relationship data from thousands of couples.
Humans could merge with AI through this specialized polymer
Scientists are seeking ways to safely connect computers to the brain.
Self-driving cars to race for $1.5 million at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
So far, 30 student teams have entered the Indy Autonomous Challenge, scheduled for October 2021.