Artificial Intelligence

Robot with finger on head.
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Human-like machines are coming … slowly, with assistants like Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri the most basic artificial intelligence to emerge. But what about those intelligent robots some fear will take over the world? Don't worry! Live Science has all the latest news and features on discoveries and achievements in the world of A.I.

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The ChatGPT website displayed on a tablet in Madrid, Spain.

AI's 'unsettling' rollout is exposing its flaws. How concerned should we be?

By Stephanie Pappas published

AI isn't close to becoming sentient, but it could be disruptive anyway.

In 332 B.C. Persian rule in Egypt came to an end with the arrival of Alexander the Great (pictured here). After his death a dynasty of Greek kings would take control of Egypt and would rule for the next three centuries.

AI is deciphering a 2,000-year-old 'lost book' describing life after Alexander the Great

By Owen Jarus published

When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, it carbonized a book on rulers who followed Alexander the Great. Now, machine learning is deciphering the "lost book."

A 3D image of a malaria protein

DeepMind AI has discovered the structure of nearly every protein known to science

By Stephanie Pappas published

The DeepMind program AlphaFold has predicted the structures of almost all proteins known to science.

Artist's rendering of a sentient artificial intelligence robot.

Google AI 'is sentient,' software engineer claims before being suspended

By Brandon Specktor published

Google engineer Blake Lemoine was suspended for sharing transcripts of a conversation with the AI system LaMDA, which he claims is sentient.

The experimental TCV tokamak at Lausanne in Switzerland is used to test the behavior of hydrogen plasmas that will serve as fuel in future fusion reactors.

Nuclear fusion is one step closer with new AI breakthrough

By Tom Metcalfe published

The green energy revolution promised by nuclear fusion is step closer, thanks to the first successful use of artificial intelligence to shape hydrogen plasmas inside a fusion reactor.

A knot and a graph representing the problems that the artificial intelligence program DeepMind tackled.

DeepMind cracks 'knot' conjecture that bedeviled mathematicians for decades

By Stephanie Pappas published

The artificial intelligence company DeepMind has teamed up with mathematicians to generate new conjectures in pure mathematics.

William Shatner is ready for your questions.

William Shatner 'AI' will chat with you about the 'Star Trek' actor's life

By Mindy Weisberger published

Conversational video technology enables AI-powered back-and-forth between viewers and prerecorded responses.

Proteins are complex structures in the body. Here, the brightly colored and twisty blobs represent different immune system proteins on the outer layer of a T-cell, a type of white blood cell that helps the body to identify foreign invaders.

DeepMind says it can predict the shape of every protein in the human body

By Stephanie Pappas published

AI firm DeepMind says it can predict the shape of every protein in the human body and in 20 species of research animals.

Xu Li, CEO of SenseTime Group Ltd., is identified by the A.I. company's facial recognition system at the company’s showroom in Beijing, China, on June 15, 2018.

Expect an Orwellian future if AI isn't kept in check, Microsoft exec says

By Stephanie Pappas published

Speaking on the BBC show 'Panorama,' Microsoft's Brad Smith warned that unless checks are put in place, artificial intelligence could lead to a dystopian future

kargu attack drone

AI drone may have 'hunted down' and killed soldiers in Libya with no human input

By Charles Q. Choi published

A UN report suggests that AI drones attacked human targets without any humans consulted prior to the strike.

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