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A look into how computer science is building and coding machines that solve problems the way human brains do.

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A guide to the internet’s favorite generative AIs

A guide to the internet’s favorite generative AIs

By Harry Guinness

Woman using her mobile phone , city skyline night light background

Popular youth mental health service faces backlash after experimenting with AI-chatbot advice

An image of the Thwaites Glacier from NASA

The ‘Doomsday’ glacier is fracturing and changing. AI can help us understand how.

By Charlotte Hu

doctor on computer

This AI is no doctor, but its medical diagnoses are pretty spot on

By Charlotte Hu

Apple introduces AI audiobook narrators, but the literary world is not too pleased

Apple introduces AI audiobook narrators, but the literary world is not too pleased

Lawyer and client listening to judge in the court room

This AI chatbot will be playing attorney in a real US court

murder mystery illustration

Only 4 people have been able to solve this 1934 mystery puzzle. Can AI do better?

By Charlotte Hu

Robot putting golf ball across indoor field into hole

Meet Golfi, the robot that plays putt-putt

One of Ford's battery modules

Ford used a quantum computer to explore EV battery materials

By Harry Guinness

The insignia of Tesla on the steering wheel of the plug-in electric car Model 3

Tesla driver blames self-driving mode for eight-car pileup

a collage of lensa's AI-generated portraits

The good and the bad of Lensa’s AI portraits

By Harry Guinness

Two Cartken robotic delivery vehicles traveling along a sidewalk in a line

UberEats is rolling out a fleet of self-driving delivery robots in Miami

This fossil-sorting robot can identify millions-year-old critters for climate researchers

This fossil-sorting robot can identify millions-year-old critters for climate researchers

By Charlotte Hu

stratego board game

Here’s how a new AI mastered the tricky game of Stratego

By Harry Guinness

Humanoid robot bracing itself against a wall in balance experiment with human researcher standing behind it in lab setting

Brace yourself for smarter robots that don’t fall over (as easily)

OpenAI’s new chatbot offers solid conversations and fewer hot takes

OpenAI’s new chatbot offers solid conversations and fewer hot takes

traversable wormhole illustration

Scientists modeled a tiny wormhole on a quantum computer

By Charlotte Hu

Collage of Disney's artificially aged portraits

Disney built a neural network to automatically change an actor’s age

Scientists use quantum computing to create glass that cuts the need for AC by a third

Scientists use quantum computing to create glass that cuts the need for AC by a third

Traffic jam seen in car's sideview mirror

An AI that lets cars communicate might reduce traffic jams

Amazon Echo device

Alexa, why are you losing so much money?

By Harry Guinness

MIT swarm robots constructing object using voxel building blocks

These robots can build almost anything—including clones of themselves

map of europe and a globe

Meta’s new AI can use deceit to conquer a board game world

By Charlotte Hu

sheet music on piano

How Spotify trained an AI to transcribe music

By Charlotte Hu

Blue robotic arm in factory working on assembly line with plywood materials

Workplace automation could affect income inequality even more than we thought

Onlookers film and photograph Boston Dynamics' Spot robot at a showcase

Boston Dynamics starts a legal dog fight with competitor Ghost

waymo self-driving vehicle on the road

Self-driving cars are turning into hyperlocal weather stations

By Charlotte Hu

Amazon Sparrow robot sorting products into boxes at warehouse facility

New robot moves Amazon towards increased warehouse automation

deviant art's dreamup AI generator tool

DeviantArt’s AI image generator aims to give more power to artists

By Helen Bradshaw

Can software really define a vehicle? Renault and Google are betting on it.

Can software really define a vehicle? Renault and Google are betting on it.

By Kristin Shaw

a stage filled with lights and music equipment

This AI can harness sound to reveal the structure of unseen spaces

By Charlotte Hu

Code as Policies robot demo at Google AI event

Google is testing a new robot that can program itself

By Harry Guinness

person's hand on typewriter

Google’s AI has a long way to go before writing the next great novel

By Charlotte Hu

Houses underwater from massive flooding

Google expands AI warning system for fire and flood alerts

Quadrupedal robot with arm attachment walking across grass

AI can teach robot dogs tricks for cheap

Close up of chess player with head in hand playing game

A simple rule variation could move chess out of a stalemate

protein structure 3D

Meta’s AI could shake up how we study protein structures

By Charlotte Hu

A major player in the AV space is hitting the brakes—here’s why

By Harry Guinness

Elon Musk gesturing with both hands up against black background

Tesla is under federal investigation over autopilot claims

paintings on a red wall

Shutterstock and OpenAI have come up with one possible solution to the ownership problem in AI art

By Charlotte Hu

Scientist's gloved hands using syringe to fill vaccine shot

AI moderators can’t keep up with vaccine disinformation’s newest language: emojis

brain cells on a multi-electrode array

What Pong-playing brain cells can teach us about better medicine and AI

By Charlotte Hu

Two armed laundry folding robot folding a t-shirt

Meet the world’s speediest laundry-folding robot

Adobe Beyond the Seen rendering

Adobe’s new AI can turn a 2D photo into a 3D scene

By Harry Guinness

Sepsis sneaks up on thousands Americans every year. AI may spot it sooner.

Sepsis sneaks up on thousands Americans every year. AI may spot it sooner.

By Simar Bajaj / Undark

Multiple sets of footprints on desert sand dunes as sun sets on horizon

Moderators ban AI-generated artwork from ‘Dune’ subreddit

Woman walking across college campus using exoskeleton robotic mobility boots

These robotic exoskeleton boots will make you feel 30 pounds lighter

Barreleye fish from a deep-sea video taken by robotic ocean rovers in Monterey Bay

Your gaming skills could help teach an AI to identify jellyfish and whales

By Charlotte Hu

A man standing in a field lands a drone in the back of a pickup truck.

Microsoft is hoping its algorithms can help farmers—and the planet

By Helen Bradshaw

guided frame demo during google annoucement

Google’s Guided Frame helps visually impaired individuals take better selfies

By Helen Bradshaw

You can now tell Facebook to stop feeding you posts you hate

You can now tell Facebook to stop feeding you posts you hate

Robot hand typing on laptop keyboard

The White House’s new ‘AI Bill of Rights’ plans to tackle racist and biased algorithms

Walgreens Retail Store Exterior at night

Your upcoming Walgreens prescription may be refilled by a machine

Tesla Optimus robot prototype dancing on stage

Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot can shuffle across stage, ‘raise the roof’

Cassie bipedal robot running on relay track

This robot broke a Guinness World Record for the 100-meter dash

meta's AI text to video generator

Meta is pivoting to video with its new AI generator

By Harry Guinness

An AI called Dragonfly is helping design faster-charging batteries

An AI called Dragonfly is helping design faster-charging batteries

By Harry Guinness

AI generated comic book artwork of alien planet's blue forest

Graphic novel with AI-generated art gets unprecedented copyright

Researchers made a robot that knows how to laugh with you

Researchers made a robot that knows how to laugh with you

By Charlotte Hu

Thumbs up Facebook buttons reflected in water droplets in front of blurry thumbs down symbol

Facebook’s automated image removal system is flawed, says Oversight Board

AI voice filters can make you sound like anyone—and make anyone sound like you

AI voice filters can make you sound like anyone—and make anyone sound like you

Amazon robotics working working on assembly line

Amazon’s tech empire is expanding into mechatronics

Are we ready for our Uber Eats orders to arrive via robot?

Are we ready for our Uber Eats orders to arrive via robot?

A Boeing drone flying in Australia.

Ghost Bat drones could fly alongside the next generation of Air Force fighter jets

By Kelsey D. Atherton