Google wants nuclear reactors to power its AI data centers

Google is the latest tech company to seek nuclear energy to cope with the high demand of electricity propelled by its development of AI.

Nobel physics prize 2024 won by AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won for discoveries that paved the way for the AI boom.

'AI scientist' created to run its own experiments

Researchers at Sakana.AI, a Tokyo-based company, have worked on developing a large language model (LLM) designed specifically for scientific research.

When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself

As A.I.-generated data becomes harder to detect, it’s increasingly likely to be ingested by future A.I., leading to worse results.

AI poses no existential threat to humanity, new study finds

Increasing model size does not lead LLMs to gain emergent reasoning abilities, meaning they will not develop hazardous abilities and therefore do not pose an existential threat. 

AI Designs Radical Magnet Free of Rare-Earth Metals in Just 3 Months

We urgently need to move away from fossil fuels, but electric vehicles and other green technology can put their own pressures on the environment. That pressure could be eased with a new magnet design that was built with AI.

Strange Discovery Suggests Children Trust Robots Over Humans

From The Iron Giant to Big Hero 6, many of us will be familiar with tales of kids befriending robots, which suggest generations of young children are more trusting of advice from machines than their own flesh and blood.

Google Unveils AI-Generated Search Results in New Era For Online Queries

Google on Tuesday said it would introduce AI-generated answers to online queries, in one of the biggest changes to its world leading search engine in 25 years.

Artificial Intelligence can learn to lie and cheat

Artificial intelligence can learn to lie and cheat, and this is a serious risk that requires regulatory and legislative measures to ensure that it remains a useful technology, rather than becoming a threat to human knowledge.

World’s first major act to regulate AI

The European Union’s parliament approved the world’s first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern the mediatized artificial intelligence at the forefront of tech investment.

Two artificial intelligences talk to each other

After learning and performing a series of basic tasks,  this AI was able to provide a linguistic description of them to a ''sister'' AI, which in turn performed them.

A new AI tool could transform video production and amplify disinformation risks

OpenAI announced a new generative AI system named Sora, which produces short videos from text prompts. The high quality of the sample outputs published so far has provoked both excited and concerned reactions.

New AI System Discovers Supernova Without Human Help

For the first time, artificial intelligence (AI) has searched for, detected, confirmed, classified, and announced a supernova discovery without any human intervention.

Swift AI drone beats humans in drone race for the first time

Researchers from the University of Zurich and Intel have announced the creation of a unique autonomous unmanned system called Swift. It is powered by artificial intelligence and is capable of outperforming humans in FPV drone race.

Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.