AI’s game-playing still has flaws: AlphaZero-style self-play tested on Nim
New research published in Machine Learning shows pattern learning is not enough to train AI...
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AI agent ‘lobster fever’ grips China despite risks
Chinese entrepreneur Frank Gao used to spend long hours running his social media accounts but...
Report calls for AI toy safety standards to protect young children
AI-powered toys that "talk" with young children should be more tightly regulated and carry new...
‘Privacy by design’: Tech protects against identity leaking during AI photo editing
Consumers, businesses, and institutions may soon have private, secure, and trustworthy generative AI tools for...
AI search robot uses 3D maps and internet knowledge to find lost items
A robot that can locate lost items on command, the latest development at the Technical...
AI agents can autonomously coordinate propaganda campaigns without human direction
Imagine it is two weeks before a major election in a closely contested state. A...
A bicycle robot that can drive fast and jump over obstacles
Experienced human cyclists can perform a wide range of maneuvers and acrobatics while riding their...
Human brain and AI speech recognition decode speech in similar step-by-step stages, study finds
Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed numerous artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can...
‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: Study says AI chatbots help plot attacks
From school shootings to synagogue bombings, leading AI chatbots helped researchers plot violent attacks, according...
Facing the music: Detecting dangerous driving through AI facial analysis
Researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) are developing new technology that could change how drunk...
Brain-inspired device could lead to faster, more energy-efficient AI hardware
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed a...
Researchers train AI to better follow artists by sharing creative ‘ground rules’
The conversation around AI and art generally swings between two extremes: a flood of AI...
A night vision upgrade: How AI-tuned VO₂ films could make infrared cameras far more sensitive
Inspired by the infrared sensory organs of snakes, which allow them to detect prey in...
AI assistants can sway writers’ attitudes, even when they’re watching for bias, experiments indicate
Artificial intelligence-powered writing tools such as autocomplete suggestions can definitely change the way people express...
New ‘renewable’ benchmark streamlines LLM jailbreak safety tests with minimal human effort
As new large language models, or LLMs, are rapidly developed and deployed, existing methods for...
Can AI make you more creative? Study maps when it helps and when it slows work
Art has been around for centuries, but in the age of artificial intelligence, one University...
AI doesn’t ‘see’ the way that you do, and that could be a problem when it categorizes objects and scenes
Even with no fur in the frame, you can easily see that a photo of...
AI is homogenizing human expression and thought, computer scientists and psychologists say
AI chatbots are standardizing how people speak, write, and think. If this homogenization continues unchecked,...
Hybrid AI planner turns images into robot action plans
MIT researchers have developed a generative artificial intelligence-driven approach for planning long-term visual tasks, like...
Meta to acquire Moltbook, the social network for AI agents
Meta said Tuesday it is acquiring Moltbook, a social network built exclusively for artificial intelligence...
Data center cooling could drive $10 billion to $58 billion in new waterworks
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is outpacing the ability of many...
EU parliament urges new rules to protect copyrighted work
The European Parliament on Tuesday called for new EU-wide rules to protect copyrighted content in...
Can AI read papers like a scientist? A new benchmark shows where LLMs fail
To stay up to date and work forward in their fields, scientists must have at...
The AI that taught itself: How AI can learn what it never knew
For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only...