Does ChatGPT ever give you the eerie sense you’re interacting with another human being? What about AI-generated faces? Artificial intelligence (AI) has reached an astounding level of realism, to the point that some tools can even fool people into thinking they are interacting with another human. The eeriness doesn’t stop there. In a study published ...
In June, an IBM computing executive claimed quantum computers were entering the “utility” phase, in which high-tech experimental devices become useful. In September, Australia’s Chief Scientist Cathy Foley went so far as to declare “the dawn of the quantum era.” This week, Australian physicist Michelle Simmons won the nation’s top science award for her work ...
It might sound like science fiction, but “marine cloud brightening” is being seriously considered as a way to shield parts of the ocean from extreme heat. We’re using water cannons to spray seawater into the sky. This causes brighter, whiter clouds to form. These low marine clouds reflect sunlight away from the ocean’s surface, protecting ...
Information is a valuable commodity. And thanks to technology, there are millions of terabytes of it online that feed generative AI tools. Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are now managing this information on our behalf — collating it, summarizing it, and presenting it back to us. But this “outsourcing” of information management to AI ...
In 2018-19, identity crime directly and indirectly cost Australia an estimated A$3.1 billion. To address such costs, the federal government is proposing a national digital identity scheme that will let people prove their identity without having to share documents such as their passport, driver’s license, or Medicare card. Finance Minister Katy Gallagher opened consultations for the ...
Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton made headlines earlier this year when he raised concerns about the capabilities of AI systems. Speaking to CNN journalist Jake Tapper, Hinton said: If it gets to be much smarter than us, it will be very good at manipulation because it would have learned that from us. And there are ...
Many visitors to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory are struck by the magnificent cliffs, stunning bird life, and extraordinary rock art. Some may know this landscape includes the earliest evidence of human occupation in what is now Australia, at Madjedbebe, where signs of habitation have been dated to 65,000 years ago. Most people, however, ...
Debates about AI often characterize it as a technology that has come to compete with human intelligence. Indeed, one of the most widely pronounced fears is that AI may achieve human-like intelligence and render humans obsolete in the process. However, one of the world’s top AI scientists is now describing AI as a new form ...
The technology to decode our thoughts is drawing ever closer. Neuroscientists at the University of Texas have, for the first time, decoded data from non-invasive brain scans and used them to reconstruct language and meaning from stories that people hear, see, or even imagine. In a new study published in Nature Neuroscience, Alexander Huth and ...
To build a machine, one must know what its parts are and how they fit together. To understand the machine, one needs to know what each part does and how it contributes to its function. In other words, one should be able to explain the “mechanics” of how it works. According to a philosophical approach ...
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