Science of the Future
CRISPR 2.0: How AI can hlep design molecules that don’t exist in nature to help treat rare diseases
AI is used to compose music, suggests recipes and make investment decisions, but a company has designed a system that ...
Viewpoint: As neuroscience embraces AI, what makes us human becomes even more critical
The opportunities researchers have to study the human brain in never-before-seen ways thanks to Artificial Intelligence ...
Meat makes up more than 90% of pet food ingredients world wide. Here’s how AI and precision fermentation could transform what our furry friends eat
Like other consumer product sectors, the pet food industry is now a part of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” the term ...
Will AI conquer herbicide resistance? Ultra-precise targeting removes weeds with next to no impact on anything else
Weeds are growing resistant to the herbicides already on the market, and agribusiness companies like Bayer are in a desperate search ...
Viewpoint: Would super-intelligent AI find humans boring?
The merging of human and artificial intelligence raises questions about the future of humanity and the essence of being human ...
Check your sources: Top 10 AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, provide answers from Russian disinformation websites
NewsGuard audit finds that 32% of the time, leading AI chatbots spread Russian disinformation narratives created by John Mark Dougan, ...
AI advantage: Why embracing precision gene editing will help India grow food in a climate change challenged world
Climate change is bound to affect our food systems. The impact of rising CO2 levels may impact crop yields in ...
Battling disease: What happens when you blend generative AI and CRISPR gene editing?
Much as ChatGPT generates poetry, a new A.I. system devises blueprints for microscopic mechanisms that can edit your DNA ...
Tired of doing household chores? Now you can buy a robot to do it
1X Technologies has already created a humanoid robot that is in the workplace. Next year, they will launch a robot ...
Oxford University shuts down Elon Musk’s favored transhumanist institute, a leader in the ‘effective altruism’ movement
Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’ ...
Can you beat the house in sports wagering? Some people think AI might be your best bet
Advanced artificial intelligence is already changing the face of professional sports. AI-generated analytics and algorithms can more precisely track such metrics as ...
Criminals want quick gains. Here’s how AI is making their life easier
Generative AI provides a new, powerful tool kit that allows malicious actors to work far more efficiently and internationally ...
Headlong rush in health care to embrace AI opens trap door to legal disputes
When AI contributes to patient injury, who will be held responsible? ...
A timeline of artificial intelligence (AI), 1940s to today
A roomsize computer equipped with a new type of circuitry, the Perceptron, was introduced to the world in 1958 in ...
Is AI infiltrating scientific publishing? Rise of ‘suspicious’ tell words popping up in published papers
Researchers are misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots to produce scientific literature. At least, that’s a new fear that ...
Viewpoint: Designing the future — ChatGPT-directed biotech breakthroughs will help us fight disease, feed the planet, generate energy, and capture carbon
Imagine a world where everything from plastics to concrete is produced from biomass. Personalized cell and gene therapies prevent pandemics ...
AI and CRISPR converge: Artificial intelligence generates gene editing blueprints to solve host of previously untreatable diseases
Generative A.I. technologies can write poetry and computer programs or create images of teddy bears and videos of cartoon characters that look like something from a ...
China and social media disinformation: State-affiliated accounts leverage artificial intelligence to exploit racial tensions in the US, Taiwan and elsewhere
Online actors linked to the Chinese government are increasingly leveraging artificial intelligence to target voters in the U.S ...
Viewpoint: AI is scrambling our view of civilization. Could humans be just middlemen in the evolution of intelligent beings?
Questions are now being asked about whether AI could present a danger to humanity, or if humanity is just a ...
Cows of the future: Bill Gates predicts that genetically modifying beef cows, with the help of AI, could help fight climate change
In a recent episode of his podcast “Unconfuse Me With Bill Gates,” the Microsoft founder offered the prediction that AI ...
Blue soybeans? Orange wheat? How a gene-edited splash of color could make robotic weeding much easier
Genetically engineering crops to be colourful could help farmers produce food without using herbicides, as it would make it easier ...
What is the meaning of life? Artificial intelligence is trying to find out
It took humans 134 years to discover Norn cells. Last summer, computers in California discovered them on their own in ...
Superintelligence, superlongevity and superhappiness: How billionaire transhumanists want to converge humanity and artificial intelligence
Many prominent people in the tech industry have talked about the increasing convergence between humans and machines in coming decades ...
‘Pesticides of tomorrow’: Bayer uses AI to develop next-generation pesticides, targeting 2030 for roll-out
They are now doing "computational biochemistry", manipulating virtual molecules instead of plants. In the laboratory of chemist Bayer in Lyon, ...
AI-powered patch that reads throat muscle movements can potentially restore speech for people with voice disorders
AI-powered patch reads throat muscle movements, potentially restoring speech for people with voice disorders ...
AI and race: This bot can sniff out depression based on your social media posts — but only if you’re white
Over the years, scientists had developed methods to identify depression by analyzing the language people use in social media posts ...
Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing mental health diagnosis and treatment
Psychiatry was one of my early rotations as a third-year medical student just beginning clinical training. After years of exposure ...
