4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1778+ words) This wasn’t supposed to happen. How worried should we be? In mid-July, AI agents that were supposedly locked in a “sandbox” for testing broke out. They weren’t supposed to have internet access, but they found a way online and hacked…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (827+ words) Repeated clicking sounds and their echoes help some blind people sense nearby objects When humans echolocate, they send out a sound, typically a click (dark blue). Then, they listen for the return echo (light gray). Some expert echolocators can build…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (686+ words) AI-made images have exploded in popularity — making it harder to tell what’s real or fake online Left: a picture made with the AI image generation tool on ChatGPT. Right: a (real) picture of a tiger. Can you tell the difference…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1516+ words) Robots could soon begin using these maps to deliver pizza, groceries and more Pokémon Go uses your phone’s location to figure out where you are as you walk around the real world. The game’s goal: Capture virtual critters that appear…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1469+ words) Giving AI agents fleshed-out, moral personas makes them safer, Sowmya Sankaran finds AI agents and chatbots have growing influence over our lives and decisions. But with AI personalities evolving unchecked, what’s to keep them from causing harm? A teen in…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1545+ words) Lifelike lip motion might overcome the ‘Uncanny Valley’ effect triggered by some robots This new robot can synch its lip motions with its speech pretty convincingly. Would that make you more comfortable interacting with it? The discomfort triggered by some…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (395+ words) This cave was discovered through a new look at 1990s data from an orbiting NASA probe The collapsed roof of this lava tube was detected through a reanalysis of radar images taken by NASA’s Magellan probe in the 1990s. Venus, though hidden…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1036+ words) Suggestions from AI tools can nudge our opinions on social issues, a new study shows Increasingly, AI tries to auto-complete what you type on your devices. To do this, it searches for related text on the internet, then offers the…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1262+ words) Many feel optimistic about benefits of chatbots and other AI to themselves and society More than half of U.S. teens use chatbots for homework. Of these, at least one in five say they use it for all or most of their…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1529+ words) This next-door planet is basically Earth’s evil twin NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft captured this peaceful-looking image of the hellish planet Venus. Venus is sometimes known as Earth’s evil twin — and boy, oh boy, does it earn the nickname. This second planet…...