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AI can’t predict a child’s future success, no matter how much data we give it

A trio of Princeton social scientists recently conducted a mass experiment with 160 research teams t...

The Church of AI is dead… so what’s next for robots and religion?

The Way of the Future, a church founded by a former Google and Uber engineer, is now a thing of the...

Intel researchers explain how they used AI to give GTA V a photorealistic revamp

Nearly eight years after Grand Theft Auto V was released, modders are still enriching — and ruining...

What happens when computers can literally do everything?

We’ve got computers inside of our smartphones that can perform massive calculations. An iPhone, for...

Facebook apologizes after AI blocks posts about DIY coronavirus masks

Facebook’s AI moderators claimed another innocent victim this week when an algorithm blocked content...

4 mind-blowing quantum physics concepts to drop at parties

Imagine opening the weekend paper and looking through the puzzle pages for the Sudoku. You spend your...

Scientists: NASA better hurry up and put people on the Moon, bad space weather’s coming

Outer space is so often called a “cold void” that it’s easy to forget there’s weather up there too....

New superstring theory says black holes may be portals to other universes

We don’t know very much about our universe. We’re fairly certain it exists, but we don’t know how it...

Grillo, IBM, and the Clinton Foundation expand low-cost earthquake detection to the Caribbean

The Clinton Foundation today announced a commitment to action around deploying a low-cost, open-source...

MIT researchers use AI to turn the coronavirus into a haunting melody

An AI system that turns the coronavirus‘ structure into music could help scientists spot details abo...

These AIs think they can translate your dog’s barks

We’re all suffering under lockdown — even our dogs. Although most can still enjoy regular walkies, t...

This smart toilet offers advanced poop analysis and analprinting

An international team of researchers recently developed a fully automated sensor package that turns an...

AI predicts where coronavirus cases will spike next

An AI has predicted which areas of the UK will suffer spikes in coronavirus cases next by analyzing socia...

Can we teach AI how to code? Welcome to IBM’s Project CodeNet

IBM’s AI research division has released a 14-million-sample dataset to develop machine learning mode...

Can Google really build a practical quantum computer by 2029?

Google pulled off I/O, its developers conference, without a hitch yesterday. The Mountain View compan...

Someone trained an AI on BDSM literature so it could remix the King James Bible

Do robots go to hell? An AI developer recently created a remix of the Holy Bible (King James version...

Revive old paintings with your singing head with Reface’s new app feature

AI-based face replacing apps are fun and they let you reimagine photos and songs in a different way....

Researchers want your voice to train coronavirus-detecting AI

Researchers behind an AI app that detects coronavirus in your voice have asked for volunteers to help...