Recursive self-improvement, where AI continuously builds better versions of itself, might be harder than some hope.

Scientific research often depends on complex laboratory equipment that only specialists know how to use. But Anthropic is now rolling out a system that allows AI agents to control lab devices and ...

Floating in a warm, nutritious bath, the slices of mouse brain buzzed with electrical activity. Researchers gave them a few zaps, and parts of the hippocampus strengthened their wiring. This type of ...

Human beings have long told versions of the same warning: Be careful what you wish for. In Greek mythology, King Midas got exactly what he asked for, but at the cost of everything else he valued. In ...

For 30 years, the world wide web has run on a surprisingly profound social contract. Most sites are free for search engines to access, but if you use their content, you give credit by linking to the ...

An ‘AI Legal Team’ Has Won Its First Case. It’s a Rare Victory for Access to Justice. Long Foreseen, the Problem of AI Alignment Is Finally Reality. Solving It Won’t Be Easy. DeepMind’s Weather AI ...

This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original article. In June, a community of mostly mathematicians released the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, an ...

Let a mouse nose around a house, and it will rapidly find food and form a strategy to return to it without getting caught. Given the same task, an AI would require millions of training examples and ...

For most of artificial intelligence’s history, many researchers expected that building truly capable systems would need a long series of scientific breakthroughs: revolutionary algorithms, deep ...

Jeanne Calment was over 122 years old when she passed away. The oldest person in history, she smoked for nearly a century, but never developed cancer. Why does cancer grow, spread, and become deadly ...

The gene editor CRISPR is tackling fatty molecules in the body that contribute to one of the world’s top killers: cardiovascular disease. With a single injection, their flagship formulation lowered ...