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Ideas

Optimizing Machines Is Perilous. Consider ‘Creatively Adequate’ AI.

The future of artificial intelligence needs less data and can tolerate ambiguity.
Misdiagnosed

When It Comes to Health Care, AI Has a Long Way to Go

Medical information is more complex and less available than the web data that many algorithms were trained on, so results can be misleading.
Space Atlas

Astrophysicists Release the Biggest Map of the Universe Yet

A powerful astronomy instrument called DESI charts millions of galaxies in the night sky. Can it help scientists finally figure out what dark energy is?
Ideas

When Mind Melds With Machine, Who’s in Control?

Brain-computer interfaces are getting better all the time—and they’re about to land us in a philosophical quagmire.
Un-folding

This AI Software Nearly Predicted Omicron’s Tricky Structure

New algorithms that decipher complex sequences of amino acids offered an early view of the coronavirus variant. They could point the way to future drugs.
Year in Review

A Move for 'Algorithmic Reparation' Calls for Racial Justice in AI

Researchers are encouraging those who work in AI to explicitly consider racism, gender, and other structural inequalities.
Freeze Frame

To See Proteins Change in Quadrillionths of a Second, Use AI

Researchers have long wanted to capture how protein structures contort in response to light. But getting a clear image was impossible—until now.
Ethics

Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center

The researcher, who says Google fired her a year ago, wants to ask questions about responsible use of artificial intelligence.
AI-ntibiotics

An AI Finds Superbug-Killing Potential in Human Proteins

A team scoured the human proteome for antimicrobial molecules and found thousands, plus a surprise about how animals evolved to fight infections.
Real Talk

The Long Search for a Computer That Speaks Your Mind

The trick is to use data from the brain to synthesize speech in real time so users can practice and the machine can learn. New brain computer interface systems are getting there.
Hard Drive

Neuron Bursts Can Mimic a Famous AI Learning Strategy

A new model of learning centers on blasts of neural activity that act as teaching signals—approximating an algorithm called backpropagation.
Morals

This Program Can Give AI a Sense of Ethics—Sometimes

Researchers trained an algorithm to answer questions about human values. Some of the responses are troubling.
Non-Trivial Pursuit

This AI Resurrects Ancient Board Games—and Lets You Play Them

What tabletop games did our ancestors play in 1000 BC? A new research project wants to find out, and make them playable online too.
Beware

These Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk

Researchers used specialized chips and simulation software to teach a four-legged robot to navigate stairs and blocks.
Ideas

Humans Can't Be the Sole Keepers of Scientific Knowledge

Communicating scientific results in outdated formats is holding progress back. One alternative: Translate science for machines.
Cornerstone

A Stanford Proposal Over AI's 'Foundations' Ignites Debate

A research paper that dubs some artificial intelligence models "foundations" is sparking a dispute over the future of the field.
Neuroscience

How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?

Scientists taught an artificial neural network to imitate a biological neuron. The result offers a new way to think about the complexity of brain cells.
chip shot

The $150 Million Machine Keeping Moore’s Law Alive

ASML’s next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography machines achieve previously unattainable levels of precision, which means chips can keep shrinking for years to come.
cerebras

A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible

Cerebras says its technology can run a neural network with 120 trillion connections—a hundred times what's achievable today.
Structures

Without Code for DeepMind’s Protein AI, This Lab Wrote Its Own

The Google subsidiary solved a fundamental problem in biology but didn’t promptly share its solution. So a University of Washington team tried to re-create it.