Science of the Future
Quirky DeepSeek: A look under the hood of China’s clever new open-source search engine
DeepSeek’s success and a technical paper it published last week suggest that Chinese AI developers can match their U.S. counterparts ...
GLP podcast: AI chatbot convinces student to commit suicide. ‘Smart’ agriculture isn’t so smart; Will alcohol warning labels save lives?
Another teenager has committed suicide following some horrifying encouragement from an AI chatbot to "please die." Who's at fault when ...
How AI is trying to figure out the cause of the LA fires
What’s shaping up to be one of the worst wildfire disasters in US history had many causes. Before the blazes raged ...
How AI is being used to create new drugs and vaccines
A £225m supercomputer is using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop new drugs and vaccines. When it is fully operational this ...
5 hot new trends for AI in 2025
[W]hat’s coming in 2025 [in AI]? We’re going to ignore the obvious here: You can bet that agents and smaller, ...
AI poised to unleash a new generation of bio stimulants
Syngenta and a UK artificial intelligence company are combining forces to use the 'full power of AI' for the development ...
Paper chase crisis: Academic journals are besieged by AI-generated editorials and commentaries designed to pump up CVs, undermining their quality
On [22 October 2024], an unusual editorial appeared in the journal Neurosurgical Review. “We have made the difficult decision to ...
Are there different types of intelligence? Yes, and AI can tell you which form you have
In [a] study published in PNAS Nexus, scientists have demonstrated that artificial intelligence can predict different types of human intelligence ...
‘You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please’: A 14-year old took AI seriously. Who is responsible?
Demonic forces which lured unsuspecting innocents to their deaths were once the subject of myth. No longer. And while we ...
Non-trivial AI evolution
What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have ...
Will AI robots ever be safe enough to fully welcome them into our homes?
The world might seem to be on the brink of a humanoid-robot heyday. [B]reakthroughs in artificial intelligence promise the type ...
Interspecies translation: Here’s how humans and animals may soon be able to talk
In 2025 we will see AI and machine learning leveraged to make real progress in understanding animal communication, answering a ...
The ol’ org chart is getting an AI upgrade and businesses can not get it fast enough
Ever since the invention of the org chart in the 1850s, company structures have changed very little—they are hierarchical and ...
How close is AI to creating a catastrophic bio weapon—or causing other superhuman damage?
The release of ChatGPT ... set off fears that AI could soon be capable of surpassing human intellect—and with that ...
Why 2025 will be a turning point for AI
2025 will be a defining year for AI, shifting from generalized applications to enterprise-focused solutions. Businesses will refine their strategies ...
We are well on our way to automating science
Many scientists are already excited about AI. In a Nature survey of 1,600 scientists published in September 2023, more than half of ...
Does AI encourage violence? It comes close
In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers have demonstrated numerous ways of tricking ...
The first AI-guided garden where the plants tell you when they are thirsty
Have you ever joyously stepped out to your backyard garden, freshly brewed coffee in hand, only to find your meticulously cared-for ...
AI will influence human evolution. Here’s how
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common and sophisticated, its effects on human lives and societies raises new questions. A ...
Meet Daisy: The AI grandmother who is fighting back against scammers
AI-generated UK grandmother named “Daisy” is [making] scammers’ jobs a bit more tedious.... Using ChatGPT-like large language models, Daisy will ...
The queasy possibility that humans and AI could ‘evolve’ in tandem
For the sake of engaging in a wholehearted discussion, assume that AI is evolving.... We then have these two ideas ...
Pong addict? You should take a shot at playing a human created lifeless blob—that gets better over time
Inspired by recent advancements in brain organoid systems, researchers have designed a simple hydrogel-electrode array that not only can “play” Pong, but ...
Will there be an AI agricultural revolution?
The increasing sophistication of agriculture ... has supported an ever-burgeoning population. [T]he projected population collapse of the 20th century was ...
With AI, farmers can drastically shorten the timeline it takes to optimize their operations but is resistance to the practice holding them back?
Agriculture has always been a profession steeped in tradition, requiring years of experience to master the nuances of the land ...
Inside the ‘minds’ of AI companions: Uncensored programs bring mimic human-like conversations
In September, OpenAI unveiled an ambitious new language model capable of working through challenging problems with a simulated kind of ...
Farmers incorporating AI to generate risk assessments could help soften resistance to genetically modified crops
The acceptance of genetically modified (GM) crops is still a controversial topic that presents major obstacles to their general use ...
‘Intelligence in a dish’: ‘Brain organoids’ grown on petri dishes show signs of developing eyes
The proto-eyes are what really disturbed me. For the past decade, medical researchers have been growing living, miniature replicas of ...
