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What Does an AI Do When It Sees an Optical Illusion?
Experiments with optical illusions have revealed surprising similarities between human and AI perception
What Does an AI Do When It Sees an Optical Illusion?
Experiments with optical illusions have revealed surprising similarities between human and AI perception
Can AI Replace Human Research Participants? These Scientists See Risks
Several recent proposals for using AI to generate research data could save time and effort but at a cost
How Do Babies Realize They Can Influence the World?
An infant’s aha! moment may hold secrets to the origins of agency
AI Unravels Ancient Roman Scroll Charred By Volcano
AI helps decipher the text of a 2,000-year-old scroll burned at Pompeii
A Camera-Wearing Baby Taught an AI to Learn Words
Most machine-learning models rely on mountains of data to replicate human text, but new research suggests the recipe for learning language might be simpler
An Alliance Calling For More Open AI Should Heed Their Own Call
The word “open” is often thrown around in describing AI transparency, but the companies and groups calling for it must themselves be open about their practices
AI Survey Exaggerates Apocalyptic Risks
A speculative survey about AI’s future may have been biased toward an alarmist perspective
AI Audio Deepfakes Are Quickly Outpacing Detection
An alleged voice recording of racist remarks exemplifies the challenges of our new AI normal
AI Program Finds Thousands of Possible Psychedelics. Will They Lead to New Drugs?
Researchers have doubted how useful AI protein-structure tool AlphaFold will be in discovering medicines—now they are learning how to deploy it effectively
Can this AI Tool Predict Your Death? Maybe, But Don’t Panic
Amid the machine-learning boom, model developers have built an all-purpose digital oracle from a trove of big data
AI Safety Research Only Enables the Dangers of Runaway Superintelligence
AI will become inscrutable and uncontrollable. We need to stop AI development until we have a necessary safety conversation
AI Weather Forecasting Can’t Replace Humans—Yet
GraphCast and other artificial intelligence-based forecasting tools offer a whole new way to predict the weather, but they have limits