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'Yes, I am a human': Bot detection is no longer working—and just wait until AI agents come along

You're running late at the airport and need to urgently access your account, only to be greeted by one of those frustrating tests—"Select all images with traffic lights" or "Type the letters you see in this box." You squint, ...

Computer Sciences

An AI system has reached human level on a test for 'general intelligence'—here's what that means

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure "general intelligence."

Machine learning & AI

Computer models are vital for studying everything. Here's how AI could make them even better

Here's one definition of science: it's essentially an iterative process of building models with ever-greater explanatory power.

Consumer & Gadgets

AI can't do your Christmas shopping just yet—but next year might be different

I'm a computer scientist and a bad Christmas shopper. Over the weekend, I wondered whether AI systems might be able to help me out.

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AI system can envision an entire world from a single picture

Johns Hopkins computer scientists have created an artificial intelligence system capable of "imagining" its surroundings without having to physically explore them, bringing AI closer to humanlike reasoning.

Security

Can we convince AI to answer harmful requests?

New research from EPFL demonstrates that even the most recent large language models (LLMs), despite undergoing safety training, remain vulnerable to simple input manipulations that can cause them to behave in unintended or ...

Machine learning & AI

Apple in talks to invest in OpenAI: report

iPhone juggernaut Apple is in talks to invest in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and the biggest name in generative artificial intelligence, a news report said Thursday.

Machine learning & AI

OpenAI, Meta flex muscles as AI race heats up

The world's biggest AI companies are releasing new usage data showing significant growth as competition in the generative artificial intelligence sector heats up.

Computer Sciences

Google's GameNGen simulates parts of video game Doom

A team of researchers from Google Research, Google Deep Mind and Tel Aviv University reports that it is possible to use machine learning applications to recreate and simulate parts or all of an existing video game.

Business

California lawmakers pass AI safety bill

A bill aimed at regulating powerful artificial intelligence models passed California's legislature on Wednesday, despite outcry that it could kill the technology it seeks to control.

Computer Sciences

Universal accelerator finds faster answers to complex problems

A good machine-learning algorithm is a powerful research accelerator. Pair it with a computer simulation and it can sniff out mathematical shortcuts through the program, propelling scientists to faster insights about the ...

Internet

Elon Musk's Grok: A risky experiment in AI content moderation

A deluge of bizarre computer-generated images swept Elon Musk's social platform X last week—including violent, offensive and sexually suggestive content. In one, Trump piloted a helicopter as the World Trade Center buildings ...

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Shakespeare in sign language, as seen through AI

A new study uses co-creation with reference communities to develop an app for sign language machine translation (SLMT). The research team designed a theatrical performance in sign language, seen through the eyes of artificial ...

Computer Sciences

Without texts, automatic bug assignment still works well: Study

Automatic bug assignment has been well studied in the past decade. As textual bug reports usually describe the buggy phenomena and potential causes, engineers highly depend on these reports to fix bugs. Researchers heavily ...