AI technology is radically changing the face of modern warfare, posing serious questions about human control, ethical implications, and the potential for escalating conflicts. Leading nations including the US, Ukraine, Russia, China, and Israel are engaged in an AI arms race, using autonomous drones and predictive targeting algorithms to reshape the nature of combat. The…
A study conducted by the University of Essex and published in Communications Biology utilized artificial intelligence to shed light on the longstanding debate around the theory of evolution. While Charles Darwin believed sexual selection was responsible for the diverse appearances of males in a species, Alfred Russel Wallace contended that natural selection influenced both sexes…
ElevenLabs, a pioneer in text-to-speech and artificial intelligence (AI) voice generation, has inked deals to use AI-generated voices of late movie stars in its Reader App. The firm has secured licensing rights from the estates of Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds, and Sir Laurence Olivier. The app can convert articles, PDFs, e-books, ePub, newsletters,…
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has approved a resolution originating from China, appealing to developed nations to aid poorer nations in exploiting Artificial Intelligence (AI). The non-binding resolution, called "Enhancing international cooperation on capacity-building of artificial intelligence," was proposed by China's permanent representative to the UN, Fu Cong. According to Fu, while AI technologies…
While technological advancements have brought about an era where artificial intelligence (AI) voices closely mimic the sound of human speech, correctly identifying whether a voice has originated from human or AI remains a taxing task for most people, according to a new study from psychology researchers at the University of Oslo. As voice cloning technology…
The Detroit Police Department has reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought forth by Robert Julian-Borchak Williams, a black man who was falsely arrested in January 2020 due to an erroneous facial recognition match. The case opends the conversation about the role of technology, specifically facial recognition software, in modern police work.
According to the settlement,…
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Donelly Centre have developed a state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, PepFlow, which accurately predicts the form of peptides. Peptides are smaller molecules made up of amino acids, the essential constituents of proteins. The size and flexibility of peptides allow them to fold into different shapes; the precise shape further…
Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Donelly Centre have developed an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) model, known as PepFlow, that can foresee the variety of shapes that peptides can form accurately. The different shapes a peptide can take are vital as they determine how it interacts with different molecules in the body, influencing its biological…
A study carried out by the University of Reading, UK, found that the majority of human educators are unable to detect content generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). The shift towards remote learning and the increasing accessibility of sophisticated AI tools like ChatGPT led to this research. The researchers wanted to determine if university professors could…
AI holds vast potential for societal advancement, but it also carries significant risk. One of these is the rapidly growing field of deep fake creation, which uses AI technologies to fabricate highly realistic but false media. A new study from Google DeepMind and Jigsaw, a Google offshoot focused on addressing societal threats, has found that…
A study conducted by the University of Oxford has developed a way to test for instances when an AI language model is "unsure" of what it is generating or is "hallucinating". This term refers to when a language model creates responses that, while fluent and plausible, are inconsistent and not based in truth.
The concept…
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati and Northwestern University have devised a system called “Comp Cog AI” that utilises artificial intelligence (AI) to predict a person's anxiety levels based on their reactions to pictures. The study has recently been published in Mental Health Research and involved over 3,000 participants from across the US. In this…