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Crisis Mode

Simulation Tech Can Help Predict the Biggest Threats

In the face of myriad global problems, Single Synthetic Environments will make life-and-death decisions easier to navigate.

By Joe Robinson

mirror image

Gaming Giant Unity Wants to Digitally Clone the World

The company is leveraging its technology to help clients make “digital twins”—virtual copies of real-life objects, environments, and even people.

By Cecilia D'Anastasio

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.

By Tom Simonite

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?

By Ramin Skibba

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.

By Tom Simonite

Special Series

The Creepy TikTok Algorithm Doesn’t Know You

The uncanny, addictive AI has turned math into a mystical force—and flattened humanity into a series of codes.

By Eleanor Cummins

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.

By Khari Johnson

Silicon Smarts

Why Computers Don’t Need to Match Human Intelligence

With continuing advances in machine learning, it makes less and less sense to compare AI to the human mind.

By Kai-Fu Lee

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.

By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

Quick Study

Facebook Says Its New AI Can Identify More Problems Faster

The “Few-Shot Learner” system doesn’t need to see as many examples to identify troublesome posts, and it works in more than 100 languages.

By Tom Simonite

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.

By Max G. Levy

Art-ificial Intelligence

Can AI Truly Give Us a Glimpse of Lost Masterpieces?

Recent projects used machine learning to resurrect paintings by Klimt and Rembrandt. They raise questions about what computers can understand about art.

By Suhita Shirodkar

Ideas

The Turing Test Is Bad for Business

Technology should focus on the complementarity game, not the imitation game.

By WIRED Ideas

Troubled Waters

As the Arctic Warms, AI Forecasts Scope Out Shifting Sea Ice

Global warming is making it harder to predict the movement and location of the ice cover, crucial information for fishing and global shipping.

By Eric Niiler

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.

By Allison Whitten

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.

By Will Knight

Surveillance

Clearview AI Has New Tools to Identify You in Photos

In an interview with WIRED, CEO Hoan Ton-That said the company has scraped 10 billion photos from the web—and developed new ways to aid police surveillance.

By Will Knight