Artificial Intelligence
AI in Medicine Is Overhyped
AI models for health care that predict disease are not as accurate as reports might suggest. Here’s why
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Needs Both Pragmatists and Blue-Sky Visionaries
For humanity’s brightest future, the blue-sky, lofty thinkers in AI need the help of the muddy-boots pragmatists
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To Clear Deadly Land Mines, Science Turns to Drones and Machine Learning
In a field in Oklahoma, researchers are using new technology to spot deadly munitions built to maim and kill
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This Artificial Intelligence Learns like a Baby
Engineers at the company DeepMind built a machine-learning system based on research on how babies’ brain works, and it did better on certain tasks than its conventional counterparts...
Conservation
AI Diagnoses Devastating Olive Tree Infection
Predicting severity can help address deadly effects to olive groves
Health Care
Algorithm That Detects Sepsis Cut Deaths by Nearly 20 Percent
Over two years, a machine-learning program warned thousands of health care providers about patients at high risk of sepsis, allowing them to begin treatments nearly two hours sooner
Artificial Intelligence
Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient: Why That Matters
Is it possible for an artificial intelligence to be sentient?
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AI Learns What an Infant Knows about the Physical World
A computer model simulating how objects react to physical forces approximates how babies understand their surroundings
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Artificial General Intelligence Is Not as Imminent as You Might Think
A close look reveals that the newest systems, including DeepMind’s much-hyped Gato, are still stymied by the same old problems
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We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself—Then We Tried to Get It Published
An artificially intelligent first author presents many ethical questions—and could upend the publishing process
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Who Is Liable When AI Kills?
We need to change rules and institutions while still promoting innovation to protect people from faulty AI
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AI Can Predict Potential Nutrient Deficiencies from Space
New work maps a region’s nutrient landscape
Consciousness
We Shouldn’t Try to Make Conscious Software—Until We Should
Eventually, the most ethical option might be to divert all resources toward building very happy machines
Artificial Intelligence
How Language-Generation AIs Could Transform Science
An expert in emerging technologies warns that software designed to summarize, translate and write like humans might exacerbate distrust in science
Artificial Intelligence
AI Sommelier Generates Wine Reviews without Ever Opening a Bottle
A new algorithm writes wine and beer reviews that sound like they were penned by human critics. Is that a good thing?
Economics
An Old-Fashioned Economic Tool Can Tame Pricing Algorithms
Left unchecked, pricing algorithms might unintentionally discriminate and collude to fix prices
Defense
AI Drug Discovery Systems Might Be Repurposed to Make Chemical Weapons, Researchers Warn
A demonstration with drug design software shows the ease with which toxic molecules can be generated
Animals
AIs Spot Drones with Help from a Fly Eye
A new bio-inspired algorithm picks out the signal from the noise
Climate Change
What AI Can Do for Climate Change, and What Climate Change Can Do for AI
To tackle the climate crisis, artificial intelligence is becoming more open and democratic
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AI-Influenced Weapons Need Better Regulation
The weapons are error-prone and could hit the wrong targets
