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AI makes rewilding look tame – and misses its messy reality
3+ hour, 57+ min ago (517+ words) Humans have always imagined the natural world. From Ice Age cave paintings to the modern day, we depict the animals and landscapes we value " and ignore those we don't. Now artificial intelligence is doing the imagining for us. And when…...
68 Laughably Bad AI Fails That Made Me Go "Uh, Are We Sure This Is The Technology Of The Future?"
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (345+ words) 68 Laughably Bad AI Fails That Made Me Go "Uh, Are We Sure This Is The Technology Of The Future?"Yahoo News UK 1. Absolute nightmare fuel. 2. This is the future liberals want. 3. Well, this is horrifying. 5. This might be the most…...
Google launched an AI model that functions like a virtual satellite. Here’s how it works
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (656+ words) Satellites orbiting Earth to gather images and measurements of land, forests, cities, and coastal waters have helped scientists understand our planet. However, since these images come from many different sources, it can be difficult to combine them into a single…...
New AI tool could speed up skin cancer diagnoses in remote parts of world
8+ mon, 6+ day ago (579+ words) A researcher at a Scottish university has developed AI tools that could give people in remote areas of the world access to fast and potentially life-saving skin cancer diagnoses. Tess Watt, the PhD student at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh who…...
Can AI teach us how animals think?
7+ mon, 5+ day ago (901+ words) How is an animal feeling at a given moment? Humans have long recognised certain well-known behaviour like a cat hissing as a warning, but in many cases we've had little clue of what's going on inside an animal's head. The…...
Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (600+ words) In his genre-defining 1950 collection of science fiction short stories "I, Robot," author Isaac Asimov laid out the Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm....
Mathematicians Say There’s a Number So Big It’s the Edge of Human Knowledge
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (219+ words) The Busy Beaver number, or BB(n), represents a mathematical problem that tries to calculate the longest possible run-time of a Turing machine recording 1s and 0s on an infinitely long tape for various sets of instructions called states. While the first three…...
Human development has slowed but AI could save us all, new UN study finds
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (628+ words) Human development is stagnating, slowing down global progress and widening equality gaps, but artificial intelligence (AI) could save the day, according to a new report released on Tuesday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The 2025 Human Development Report found…...
Google DeepMind 145-page paper predicts AGI will match human skills by 2030 — and warns of existential threats that could ‘permanently destroy humanity’
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (556+ words) DeepMind's latest 145-page safety paper warns AGI could arrive by 2030 and cause "severe harm." However, some experts say the concept of AGI is still too vague and the timeline too uncertain to be properly evaluated. Google DeepMind says in a…...
AI model being trained with NHS data from 57m people ‘could predict disease’
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (643+ words) An artificial intelligence (AI) model is being trained using NHS data from 57 million people in England in the hope it could predict disease and complications before they happen. The world-first study, led by researchers at University College London (UCL) and…...