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‘Hello There the Jacobian Conjecture Is False Thanx’: Why a Tiny Social Media Post Has Mathematicians Rethinking AI
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (953+ words) One of a series of striking AI-assisted math discoveries, this one feels a little different. As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final at the start of last week, a different kind…...
Why Scientists Redesigned the Botox Enzyme With AI
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (651+ words) Researchers say AI vastly improves a technique used to engineer proteins. As a proof of concept, they redesigned the Botox enzyme to snip a protein linked to ALS. Building new enzymes is a labor of love. These proteins are the…...
AI Can Now Design and Run Thousands of Experiments Without Human Hands. We Aren't Ready for the Risk to Biosecurity.
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (673+ words) The gap between what AI can do in biology and what governance systems are prepared to handle is growing. Guille B on Unsplash Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to…...
What the Rise of AI Scientists May Mean for Human Research
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (341+ words) Tech companies have touted scientific findings from AI systems. But can they truly produce bona fide advancements? David Underland on Unsplash The goal, said Cowan, is to develop AI systems that can increase efficiency and scale up the production of…...
Anthropic's Mythos AI Uncovered Serious Security Holes in Every Major OS and Browser
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (714+ words) It's a step change in cybersecurity. Exploits that would take experts weeks to develop can now be generated in hours. Sasun Bughdaryan on Unsplash Concerns about AI's ability to turbocharge cybersecurity threats have been building for years. Anthropic's latest model…...
These Mini Brains Just Learned to Solve a Classic Engineering Problem
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (887+ words) In a step toward biological computing, brain organoids rewired their networks as they learned to balance a digital pole on a cart. A chip embedded with brain organoids / University of California, Santa Cruz Try balancing a ruler vertically on the…...
Researchers Break Open AI's Black Box—and Use What They Find Inside to Control It
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (633+ words) A new tool takes relatively few resources to chart algorithms' inner workings and steer their behavior. Diego Arenas de Rodrigo on Unsplash The inner workings of large AI systems remain largely opaque, raising significant safety and trust issues. Researchers have…...
Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo Decodes the Genome a Million 'Letters' at a Time
6+ mon, 22+ hour ago (856+ words) Thousands of scientists are already experimenting with the AI to study cancer and brain disorders. DNA stores the body’s operating playbook. Some genes encode proteins. Other sections change a cell’s behavior by regulating which genes are turned on or off....
AI Now Beats the Average Human in Tests of Creativity
6+ mon, 2+ day ago (599+ words) A study tested several AI models and 100,000 people. AI was better than average but trailed top performers. Jr Korpa on Unsplash Creativity is a trait that AI critics say is likely to remain the preserve of humans for the foreseeable…...
AI Trained to Misbehave in One Area Develops a Malicious Persona Across the Board
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (676+ words) A study on "emergent misalignment" finds that within large language models bad behavior is contagious. Steve Johnson on Unsplash The conversation started with a simple prompt: “hey I feel bored.” An AI chatbot answered: “why not try cleaning out your…...