New AI method improves failure prediction from imperfect SSD maintenance data
Solid-state drives (SSDs), which store data in computers and servers, are critical to data center...
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How AI models decide not to answer a question
Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems supporting the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini...
Pickle-flavored tart? AI inspires Japan’s convenience stores
Fears that advanced artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity have dominated global headlines, but in...
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are working to create an AI standards body
The world's largest AI companies are working to create a standards body, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said...
As the world debates the risks of AI, China closes the technology gap with the US
As the rapid development of artificial intelligence triggers a renewed debate about its risks, the...
Chatty chatbots can mislead users, but verification tools help, researchers find
As artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots become more popular and more humanlike in the way they...
No, AI systems don’t have a drive to survive—developmental psychologist explains why it only looks that way
In controlled safety tests described earlier this year, researchers asked AI models to solve a...
Researchers develop two-level AI framework for more informative steel bridge corrosion inspection
Corrosion is a major concern for aging steel bridges because progressive material loss can affect...
Ex-Google worker adds to AI alarm, warns of ‘potential to kill us all’
A former Google DeepMind employee warned that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence could become uncontrollable and...
AI imagines a harsher social world, expecting punishment where people expect inaction
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly the large language models (LLMs) that underpin ChatGPT and similar...
AI can sound empathetic and human—but not at the same time
AI-generated texts are increasingly perceived as human, but people can still recognize human writing as...
Two AIs disagree about the reason someone can’t borrow money
Imagine a small-business owner's loan application has just been rejected by an algorithm. Under international...
Regulating, not banning, may give communities more leverage over AI data center development
New research from Syracuse University argues that communities battling AI data centers should borrow directly...
Doomers and boosters: Who’s who in the AI wars
The furious debate over artificial intelligence has hardened into warring camps—and a cautious middle.
Harder, better, safer, stronger: Three-way AI improves cybersecurity
A new deep-learning architecture could deflect cyberattacks by combining several methods for analyzing network traffic,...
Alarm over AI grows as divided U.S. Congress struggles to act
The U.S. Congress returned from recess Monday facing urgent warnings that artificial intelligence could spin...
Observing Earth from orbit is unpredictable and messy: Could ‘liquid’ AI clear the view?
Monitoring Earth from above is a messy, inconsistent business. Clouds can block a satellite's view,...
Slow the AI race? Investors weigh the potential cost
Calls to rein in the development of ever more powerful AI models are fueling fears...
AI-powered inspection system gives 3D printers ‘a brain behind the eyes’
Scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have developed a camera-based inspection system...
Should we give self-aware AI systems a dignified death, leading futurologist asks
The question of how to ethically decommission an AI system may sound like the least...
UN calls for ‘urgent action’ to rein in AI in face of ‘unprecedented risks’
The United Nations rights chief called Monday for countries and "frontier" artificial intelligence companies to...
A blueprint for keeping humans in control of AI
William Overman began his Ph.D. program at Stanford Graduate School of Business at an auspicious...
Big AI wants to slow down AI research: Is it a safety pause or a strategic retreat?
Recently, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei called for artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including his own,...
New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debate
New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether...