Machine learning

Experiments with optical illusions have revealed surprising similarities between human and AI perception

Several recent proposals for using AI to generate research data could save time and effort but at a cost

An infant’s aha! moment may hold secrets to the origins of agency

AI helps decipher the text of a 2,000-year-old scroll burned at Pompeii

Most machine-learning models rely on mountains of data to replicate human text, but new research suggests the recipe for learning language might be simpler

The word “open” is often thrown around in describing AI transparency, but the companies and groups calling for it must themselves be open about their practices

A speculative survey about AI’s future may have been biased toward an alarmist perspective

An alleged voice recording of racist remarks exemplifies the challenges of our new AI normal

Researchers have doubted how useful AI protein-structure tool AlphaFold will be in discovering medicines—now they are learning how to deploy it effectively

Amid the machine-learning boom, model developers have built an all-purpose digital oracle from a trove of big data

AI will become inscrutable and uncontrollable. We need to stop AI development until we have a necessary safety conversation

GraphCast and other artificial intelligence-based forecasting tools offer a whole new way to predict the weather, but they have limits