From 1950 to Today: The History of AI (so Far)

From 1950 to Today: The History of AI (so Far)

Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder--but Memorability May Be Universal

Celia Ford[photo1]Imagine spending a weekend afternoon with friends at an art museum: nodding with crossed arms, desperately searching for something insightful to say. The vast majority of paintings y...

Apple avoids "AI" hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products

Amid notable new products like the Apple Silicon Mac Pro and the Apple Vision Pro revealed at Monday's WWDC 2023 keynote event, Apple presenters never once mentioned the term "AI," a notable omission ...

ChatGPT Is Cutting Non-English Languages Out of the AI Revolution

[photo1]Paresh DaveComputer scientist Pascale Fung can imagine a rosy future in which polyglot AI helpers like ChatGPT bridge language barriers. In that world, Indonesian store owners fluent only in l...

Neuralink says it has the FDA's OK to start clinical trials

In December 2022, founder Elon Musk gave an update on his other, other company, the brain implant startup Neuralink. As early as 2020, the company had been saying it was close to starting clinical tri...

The FDA will apparently let Elon Musk put a computer in a human's brain

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink says it has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to launch its first in-human clinical study. If this is true, it means that actu...

Gary Marcus is happy to help regulate AI for the U.S. government

On Tuesday of this week, neuroscientist, founder and author Gary Marcus sat between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Christina Montgomery, who is IBM's chief privacy trust officer, as all three testified bef...

OpenAI peeks into the "black box" of neural networks with new research

On Tuesday, OpenAI published a new research paper detailing a technique that uses its GPT-4 language model to write explanations for the behavior of neurons in its older GPT-2 model, albeit imperfectl...

What Really Made Geoffrey Hinton Into an AI Doomer

Will Knight[photo1]Geoffrey Hinton, perhaps the most important person in the recent history of artificial intelligence, recently sent me a video of Snoop Dogg. In the clip of a discussion panel, the r...

AI that decodes what mice see can enhance future BCIs, say researchers

An AI tool that decodes what mice see could enhance future brain-computer interfaces, according to a new study.Named CEBRA, the system was developed by researchers at EPFL, a university in Switzerland...

AI plus MRI yields the ability to recognize what the mind is hearing

We have various ways of seeing what the brain is up to, from low-resolution electrodes that track waves of activity that ripple across the brain, to implanted electrodes that can follow the activity o...

Prompt engineering could be the hottest job in tech, with a paycheck to match

Everybody can breathe out. Next generation artificial intelligence isn't the existential threat to tech jobs the AI doomers imagined it would be.In fact, Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools such a...

Large language models also work for protein structures

The success of ChatGPT and its competitors is based on what's termed emergent behaviors. These systems, called large language models (LLMs), weren't trained to output natural-sounding language (or eff...

Deepfakes for scrawl: With handwriting synthesis, no pen is necessary

Thanks to a free web app called calligrapher.ai, anyone can simulate handwriting with a neural network that runs in a browser via JavaScript. After typing a sentence, the site renders it a...

The most mind-blowing Neural stories of 2022

We did it! Despite humanity's best efforts, we made it through 2022. Before we pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and brace for whatever 2023 has to offer, we should probably take some time to ref...

Scientists in Bulgaria may have figured out how to detect wormholes

A team of researchers at the University of Sofia in Bulgaria may have figured out a novel method for detecting wormholes - assuming, of course, they exist at all.
Wormholes are theoretical shortcut...