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Dec 31, 2023

3 scary breakthroughs AI will make in 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for decades, but this year was a breakout for the spooky technology, with OpenAI's ChatGPT creating accessible, practical AI for the masses. AI, however, has a checkered history, and today's technology was preceded by a short track record of failed experiments. For the most...

Jan 9, 2024

Last year AI entered our lives — is 2024 the year it'll change them?

We've come a long way since OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022. Back then, generative artificial intelligence (AI), exemplified by the chatbot-style user interface, was more or less a glorified toy. Since then, the biggest tech companies in the world have been locked in an arms race to build better...

Jan 11, 2024

Want to ask ChatGPT about your kid's symptoms? Think again — it's right only 17% of the time

The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT is highly inaccurate at making pediatric diagnoses, a new study finds. Just as many parents may consult websites like WebMD to check symptoms their children are experiencing, they may also be tempted to consult ChatGPT. But researchers found the AI chatbot — powered by...

Jan 18, 2024

Forensic scientists have a new fingerprint-matching tool in their arsenal thanks to AI, but it's sparked a controversy

For the first time, scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to connect two fingerprints left by different digits belonging to the same person. The new technique could potentially revive some cold cases — although some forensic experts have downplayed the discovery’s significance. It's long been suspected the same person's fingerprints...

Jan 19, 2024

Scientists used AI to build a low-lithium battery from a new material that took just hours to discover

An artificial intelligence (AI) program has identified a material not found in nature that could reduce the amount of lithium used in batteries by up to 70%. The new material, a blend of sodium, lithium, yttrium, and chloride ions, is a type of mixed metal chloride and was found to...

Jan 19, 2024

Artificial general intelligence — when AI becomes more capable than humans — is just moments away, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg declares

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be around the corner if Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has any say in it. The Facebook founder announced on Instagram that he is dumping more than $10 billion into the computing infrastructure to develop AGI — AI that can match or surpass humans across a...

Jan 26, 2024

Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems that were trained to be secretly malicious resisted state-of-the-art safety methods designed to purge them of dishonesty, a disturbing new study found. Researchers programmed various large language models (LLMs) — generative AI systems similar to ChatGPT — to behave maliciously. Then, they tried to remove this...

Feb 7, 2024

New Chinese AI model 'better than industry leader' in key metrics

Chinese scientists claim they have built an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can beat one of the world's most widely used large language models (LLMs). iFlytek's Spark v3.5 outpaces OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo in language capabilities, math and coding, and is a close second to the American AI system in several...

Feb 23, 2024

AI chatbots need to be much better at remembering things. Have scientists just cracked their terrible memory problem?

Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are terrible at remembering things — both between separate conversations and even during the same conversation. But two recent breakthroughs might completely change this. If you talk to a large language model (LLM) like OpenAI's ChatGPT for long enough, it will begin to forget crucial pieces...

Feb 27, 2024

New AI image generator is 8 times faster than OpenAI's best tool — and can run on cheap computers

A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool can generate images in under two seconds — and it doesn't need expensive hardware to run. South Korean scientists have used a special technique called knowledge distillation to compress the size of an open source (or publicly available) image generation model known as Stable...

Mar 6, 2024

AI singularity may come in 2027 with artificial 'super intelligence' sooner than we think, says top scientist

Humanity could create an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that is just as smart as humans in as soon as the next three years, a leading scientist has claimed. Ben Goertzel, a computer scientist and CEO of SingularityNET, made the claim during the closing remarks at the Beneficial AGI Summit 2024...