With biodiversity declining at unprecedented rates and less than a decade remaining to avert the worst effects of climate change,…
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The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can invent is nearly 200 years old, going back to the very beginning…
A new type of material can learn and improve its ability to deal with unexpected forces thanks to a unique…
Researchers and staff from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have developed a flexible, stretchable electronic device…
Despite the important and ever-increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in many parts of modern society, there is very little…
How would an artificial intelligence (AI) decide what to do? One common approach in AI research is called “reinforcement learning”. …
Fake photography is nothing new; in the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was famously deceived by two school-aged sisters…
You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future; indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical…
The 1999 cult classic film Office Space depicts Peter’s dreary life as a cubicle-dwelling software engineer; every Friday, Peter tries…
In August 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the electric car manufacturer was planning to get into the robot business.…