AI-powered social media can subtly manipulate opinion at scale
AI tools used to generate, edit or contextualize social media posts can introduce hidden biases...
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Move over, Messi! Robot footballers thrill crowds in South Korea
Thirty seconds before kick-off, humanoid robot footballers in red and blue jerseys await the referee's...
AI race weakens climate pledges at Google, Amazon
Google and Amazon this week reported sharp increases in greenhouse gas emissions, driven by the...
By modeling visual saliency, AI improves ratings of artistic product designs
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that evaluates the visual appeal of literary...
Microsoft, AWS deploy engineer armies to help crack AI
AWS and Microsoft want to embed thousands of their own engineers at client companies to...
Data center fights pit social values, democracy and capitalism against each other
Data center projects continue to generate controversy around the country. In part, that's because a...
Meta shares surge on report of new AI cloud business
Shares of Meta Platforms jumped more than 6% on Wall Street on Wednesday after a...
Why AI fiction still feels flat: New test shows characters lack mystery and complexity
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that while artificial...
AI-human relationships are real and come with risks, researchers find
Human-AI relationships are no longer confined to the domain of science fiction. As the technology...
AI changes its behavior around authority… and that could be risky
Artificial intelligence doesn't just learn how humans talk. It may also be learning who gets...
Australian musicians hate AI using their songs, but have little legal protection
Music from Kylie Minogue, John Farnham, INXS, Midnight Oil, AC/DC, Tones and I, Gotye, Ben...
Reliably detecting and clearly explaining deepfake images
Artificial intelligence can now generate images that are virtually indistinguishable from real ones. Researchers at...
If you could chat with an AI ghost, what would you want them to say? New study explores
Inside a second-floor lab at CU Boulder, Jack Manning and Jed Brubaker are resurrecting the...
US govt lifts restrictions on powerful AI models, Anthropic says
Anthropic will soon begin restoring access globally to its most powerful AI models, Fable 5...
CIA boss compares cutting-edge AI to nuclear weapons
CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Tuesday compared the capabilities of the most advanced artificial intelligence...
Geospatial upgrade gives TabPFN sharper local predictions on datasets up to 70,000 rows
A new development in data science has given one popular machine learning tool an improved...
Short training helps people spot AI faces in the battle against deepfake fraud
Humans have been successfully trained to spot AI-generated faces in a study led by researchers...
AI hiring software screens millions of applicants, but new evidence shows racial bias can hide job by job
About 90% of employers use AI to some extent in hiring, yet research on how...
TikTok’s torn ACL content assessed for reliability
A 16-year-old footballer twists his knee midtackle. He's diagnosed with an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)...
Eight principles from human ecology can help AI work for human well-being
Artificial intelligence is reshaping relationships by providing conversation and companionship, and reshaping how people work....
Designed to tempt: How mini AI lines up carrots to look their best
The researchers teach the packaging machine what is up and down on a snack carrot....
Machine-readable dataset speeds environmental review drafting tasks
An innovative partnership has yielded powerful new tools to help federal agencies rapidly synthesize complex...
Competition may push AI firms to favor speed over safety, new study finds
As AI systems become increasingly powerful, policymakers around the world are grappling with a difficult...
AI assistant uses smartwatches, speech and text to spot distress early
What if your smartwatch could tell when you were struggling emotionally and offer support before...