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Can Chatbots Hold Meaningful Conversations?

Training AI to read novels might help.

April 5, 2024

How AI Can Save the Zebras

Scanning animal patterns like bar codes boosts conservation.

March 11, 2024

How Quickly Do Large Language Models Learn Unexpected Skills?

A new study suggests that so-called emergent abilities actually develop gradually and predictably, depending on how you measure them.

March 8, 2024

How Illegal Fishing Ships Hide

And how conservationists are finding them.

March 6, 2024

How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles

The key to preventing crashes is to know what you don’t know.

February 6, 2024

Creative AIs Depend on Creative Humans

In the near future, it may be the other way around.

January 17, 2024

Stop Worrying About Deepfakes

Where many see the death of reality on the internet, this hacker-turned-Notre Dame professor sees communion.

December 20, 2023

When AI Hallucinates

Let’s not praise inaccuracy as creativity.

November 21, 2023

Resurrecting an Extinct Animal as a Robot

A soft robot replica solves a mystery about the evolution of movement.

November 21, 2023

Cryptographers Solve Decades-Old Privacy Problem

We are one step closer to fully private internet searches.

November 17, 2023

The Physical Process That Powers a New Type of Generative AI

Some modern image generators rely on the principles of diffusion to create images. There may be a better alternative.

October 18, 2023

A Window on the Mind, Through the Ear

New earbuds can listen to your brain activity and monitor your health.

October 12, 2023