Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Low-resolution online videos are less likely to influence opinion and also more likely to dissuade viewers from engaging with future content, research by Oregon State University scientists shows. The study carries major implications for the design and delivery of video content and suggests that deviations from high-quality presentations can create... Read more

Throughout her first pregnancy, Wang Yifan had lots of questions, which she usually put to renowned obstetrician Duan Tao—or rather, an AI clone of the top Shanghai-based doctor.... Read more

A new study from Abertay University reveals that the most effective way to protect people from AI voice scams is not through traditional warning messages, but by educating them about how advanced and authentic AI voices have become. Published in the Journal of Cybersecurity, the study provides one of the... Read more

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems power everything from chatbots to security cameras, yet many of the most advanced models operate as "black boxes." Companies can use them, but outsiders can't see how they were built, where they came from, or whether they contain hidden flaws.... Read more

There are some things perhaps we might not want artificial intelligence to handle, at least for the time being. When leading chatbots were put through war-game simulations, they opted for nuclear signaling or escalation in 95% of cases.... Read more

Researchers at the University of Bath have developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) tool that predicts the carbon footprint of buildings from simple text descriptions, giving architects real-time feedback on sustainability at the earliest design stage. From a conversational description of a proposed building, the tool uses machine learning and... Read more

With hundreds of millions of people turning to chatbots for advice, it was only a matter of time before tech companies began offering programs specifically designed to answer health questions.... Read more

Artificial intelligence (AI) is at a very Chinese time in its life. Recent moves from Chinese AI labs are throwing the dominance of American "frontier labs" such as Google and OpenAI into question.... Read more

A new study is the first to suggest realistic ways to integrate wisdom into artificial intelligence, to create AI systems that will be more robust, transparent, cooperative, and safe. Researchers from the University of Waterloo led the team, which includes experts in psychology, computer science, and engineering. Their paper proposes... Read more

When artificial intelligence systems began acing long-standing academic assessments, researchers realized they had a problem: the tests were too easy. Popular evaluations, such as the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) exam, once considered formidable, are no longer challenging enough to meaningfully test advanced AI systems.... Read more

German carmaker BMW said Friday it plans to deploy two AI-powered humanoid robots in a factory in a pilot program for the first time this year.... Read more

Innovation in artificial intelligence applications, including the rising tide of AI agents, is based on startups accessing AI foundation models offered by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Each of these companies also competes with those startups, creating conflicts of interest. A new report by Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator director of artificial intelligence... Read more

Artificial intelligence (AI) loves to cheat. When matched against a chess bot, an OpenAI model preferred hacking into its opponent's system to winning the game fairly, according to a recent study. While chess doesn't have moral stakes, more serious ethical issues could arise in everything from medicine to self-driving cars... Read more

New data centers are springing up worldwide as demand soars for artificial intelligence and cloud computing, with Asia one of the sector's fastest growing regions.... Read more

People interact with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots, which can be trained to take on certain demographic attributes like age and race, for information, entertainment, technical help, learning, emotional support, and more. But how realistically do these AI personas mimic real people? For some demographics, not well, according to researchers at... Read more