AI Reveals Lions Don’t Just Roar, They Have a Second Call
Summary: A new study reveals African lions produce two types of roars, overturning long-held assumptions and opening the…
Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers…
This Home Robot Clears Tables and Loads the Dishwasher All by Itself
Memo may not be the world’s fastest barista, but it is impressive—for a robot. I recently watched as…
can it produce the next big breakthrough?
No one could accuse Demis Hassabis of dreaming small. In 2016, the company he co-founded, DeepMind, shocked the…
A Chinese AI model taught itself basic physics — what discoveries could it make?
Researchers gave an AI data from physics experiments involving systems using pendulum-like motion to see if it could…
I have Einstein, Bohr and Feynman in my pocket
How’s this for an academic dream team? Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman. The three physicists and…
‘Godfather of AI’ becomes first person to hit one million citations
Yoshua Bengio won the 2018 Turing Award for work on neural networks. Credit: The Canadian Press/Alamy Computer scientist…
Future of Warfare and Law Series – Legal Reviews of Autonomous Weapons at the Tactical Edge
Editors’ note: This post is part of a series featuring topics discussed during the Third Annual Future of…
Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data
Multimodal training data of paired transcriptomes and text To establish a large training dataset of transcriptomes and their…
Brain Decoder Translates Visual Thoughts Into Text
Summary: A new brain decoding method called mind captioning can generate accurate text descriptions of what a person…
‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text
Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain activity sounds futuristic, but it’s now one step…
AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers
Even the best artificial intelligence agents are fairly hopeless at online freelance work, according to an experiment that…