(Credit: Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (Credit: Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Google has been the only search engine of consequence for coming up on two decades, but Microsoft hasn’t given up. Bing is still online and ready to accept your search queries, and if a new report is accurate, it might answer your questions in natural language after distilling the wisdom of the internet. This capability would come by way of ChatGPT, a groundbreaking chatbot that composes text so well that it can be confused for a living, breathing person. Whether you’re ..read more

Quadrotor drones are extremely maneuverable flying machines. In the hands of a skilled pilot, they can perform feats of aerial acrobatics not possible with any other aircraft. However, most of us are not skilled pilots. What if there was an AI that could do all that fancy flying for you? Researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich have created just such a system, which operates entirely on-board the aircraft and has never crashed—at least in real life.  Similar piloting AI systems for quadrotor aircraft are either much less maneuverable or relied on external systems like cam ..read more

Until recently, you needed some degree of artistic skill to create a piece of digital art, but artificial intelligence is changing that. Now, all you have to do is click a few buttons to generate new art, and that has put stock image providers in a tight spot. Fearing abuse and copyright issues, some image repositories have banned AI-generated art, but Adobe is willing to take a risk. It will allow AI art in the  Adobe Stock collection, but there will be some strict limitations. When uploading AI-generated art from services like DALL-E, Adobe will require contributors to mark their creations ..read more

To many, AI is just a horrible Steven Spielberg movie. To others, it’s the next generation of learning computers. But what is artificial intelligence, exactly? The answer depends on who you ask. Broadly, artificial intelligence (AI) is the combination of computer science and robust datasets, deployed to solve some kind of problem. Many definitions of artificial intelligence include a comparison to the human mind or brain, whether in form or function. Alan Turing wrote in 1950 about “thinking machines” that could respond to a problem using human-like reasoning. His eponymous Turing test is sti ..read more

Several years ago, Intel unveiled Loihi, its first public neuromorphic research processor. The term “neuromorphic” is essentially a catch-all for any type of processor that attempts to mimic the function of the brain. Because the brain is a complex organism, different chips can be neuromorphic in different ways, depending on which aspect of the brain’s design they attempt to copy. Now, Intel has announced Loihi 2, built on the upcoming Intel 4 process node. Intel 4 is still in pre-production and Intel isn’t announcing any kind of surprise launch cadence. Presumably, Loihi 2 is a very early pi ..read more

The point of playing a video game is to play it, but Sony has come up with an alternative. The company has patented a technology that trains an AI in your playstyle and lets it take over if you need a little help. So, your Sony AI could play the game in your absence to complete tasks and interact with other AIs in the game. At a certain point, do the machines even need us anymore? According to the patent, the AI profile would start with a basic set of behaviors, but it will change its gameplay approach over time. The core technology in Sony’s AI control mode is a neural network, and a system ..read more

Artificial intelligence has gotten very good at some things — it’s even approaching the capability of people when it comes to recognizing objects and generating text. What about art? OpenAI has devised a new neural network called DALL-E (it’s like Dali with a nod to beloved Pixar robot WALL-E). All you need to do is give DALL-E some instructions, and it can draw an image for you. Sometimes the renderings are little better than fingerpainting, but other times they’re startlingly accurate portrayals. OpenAI has made news lately for its GPT neural networks, which are sometimes referred to as “fa ..read more

Quadrotor drones are extremely maneuverable flying machines. In the hands of a skilled pilot, they can perform feats of aerial acrobatics not possible with any other aircraft. However, most of us are not skilled pilots. What if there was an AI that could do all that fancy flying for you? Researchers from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich have created just such a system, which operates entirely on-board the aircraft and has never crashed—at least in real life.  Similar piloting AI systems for quadrotor aircraft are either much less maneuverable or relied on external systems like cam ..read more

We’ve all been there — your GPS says there’s supposed to be a turn coming up, and you trust the machine. Then, you find yourself going the wrong way or stuck on a private road with nowhere to turn around. Getting accurate street-level maps is difficult, and even technically accurate maps can be confusing without sufficient details. Researchers from MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have combined two neural network architectures to generate more accurate GPS maps with easily accessible satellite images.  It takes time and money to gather accurate mapping data, and municipali ..read more

Neural networks have helped machines learn some skills previously limited to humans like recognizing objects in a photo or absolutely demolishing you when you fire up StarCraft II. Google is one of the leading developers of neural network AI, and it has developed a new system that uses the power of AI to identify breast cancer in mammograms that doctors might miss.  Currently, mammograms are the best way to diagnose breast cancer, but it’s far from perfect. Trained radiologists can use these tests to catch most cancers, but about one in five slip through the cracks. Additionally, about half of ..read more