Artificial Intelligence

Human-like machines are coming … slowly, with assistants like Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri the most basic artificial intelligence to emerge. But what about those intelligent robots some fear will take over the world? Don't worry! Live Science has all the latest news and features on discoveries and achievements in the world of A.I.

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DeepMind AI has discovered the structure of nearly every protein known to science

By Stephanie Pappas published

The DeepMind program AlphaFold has predicted the structures of almost all proteins known to science.

Artist's rendering of a sentient artificial intelligence robot.

Google AI 'is sentient,' software engineer claims before being suspended

By Brandon Specktor published

Google engineer Blake Lemoine was suspended for sharing transcripts of a conversation with the AI system LaMDA, which he claims is sentient.

The experimental TCV tokamak at Lausanne in Switzerland is used to test the behavior of hydrogen plasmas that will serve as fuel in future fusion reactors.

Nuclear fusion is one step closer with new AI breakthrough

By Tom Metcalfe published

The green energy revolution promised by nuclear fusion is step closer, thanks to the first successful use of artificial intelligence to shape hydrogen plasmas inside a fusion reactor.

A knot and a graph representing the problems that the artificial intelligence program DeepMind tackled.

DeepMind cracks 'knot' conjecture that bedeviled mathematicians for decades

By Stephanie Pappas published

The artificial intelligence company DeepMind has teamed up with mathematicians to generate new conjectures in pure mathematics.

William Shatner is ready for your questions.

William Shatner 'AI' will chat with you about the 'Star Trek' actor's life

By Mindy Weisberger published

Conversational video technology enables AI-powered back-and-forth between viewers and prerecorded responses.

Proteins are complex structures in the body. Here, the brightly colored and twisty blobs represent different immune system proteins on the outer layer of a T-cell, a type of white blood cell that helps the body to identify foreign invaders.

DeepMind says it can predict the shape of every protein in the human body

By Stephanie Pappas published

AI firm DeepMind says it can predict the shape of every protein in the human body and in 20 species of research animals.

Xu Li, CEO of SenseTime Group Ltd., is identified by the A.I. company's facial recognition system at the company’s showroom in Beijing, China, on June 15, 2018.

Expect an Orwellian future if AI isn't kept in check, Microsoft exec says

By Stephanie Pappas published

Speaking on the BBC show 'Panorama,' Microsoft's Brad Smith warned that unless checks are put in place, artificial intelligence could lead to a dystopian future

The robot artist "Ai-Da" stands in front of one of her self-portraits during the opening of her new exhibition at the Design Museum in London on May 18.

Human-like robot creates creepy self-portraits

By Harry Baker published

A robotic artist powered by AI algorithms has created realistic self-portraits that question the limits of artificial intelligence and what it means to be human.

Amelia Earhart in 1937, standing under the nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra monoplane.

Photos of Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie and others come alive (creepily), thanks to AI

By Mindy Weisberger published

In AI-generated animations, faces that were once frozen in time blink, turn their heads and even smile.

hazy mathematical formulas in a book

New AI 'Ramanujan Machine' uncovers hidden patterns in numbers

By Stephanie Pappas published

A new artificially intelligent 'Ramanujan Machine' can generate hundreds of new mathematical conjectures, which might lead to new math proofs and theorems.

NASA astronaut Charles Duke filmed Commander John Young as Young drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle, in footage shot on April 21, 1972 during the fifth day of the Apollo 16 moon landing.

Astonishing AI restoration brings Apollo moon landing films up to speed

By Mindy Weisberger published

Artificial intelligence transformed NASA footage of Apollo missions to the moon, making decades-old events look like they were shot on high-definition video.

A description of Caligula said the emperor had "a glare savage enough to torture."

AI 'resurrects' 54 Roman emperors, in stunningly lifelike images

By Mindy Weisberger published

An artist used machine learning to create photorealistic portraits of 54 ancient Roman emperors, working from nearly 1,000 images of busts.

Tech collides with theology, in AI Jesus.

New 'AI Jesus' can deliver a sermon, but will you understand it?

By Mindy Weisberger published

A neural network learned to deliver sermons like Jesus (sort of ) after it was trained on the King James Bible.

Mysterious, Ancient Radio Signals Keep Pelting Earth. Astronomers Designed an AI to Hunt Them Down.

By Rafi Letzter published

the bubble nebula

AI Created a 3D Replica of Our Universe. We Have No Idea How It Works.

By Stephanie Pappas published

The first artificial intelligence-created universe is almost as mysterious as the real thing.

AI Listened to People's Voices. Then It Generated Their Faces.

By Mindy Weisberger published

Successful results matched some of the speakers' physical characteristics.

This Animated Mona Lisa Was Created by AI, and It Is Terrifying

By Mindy Weisberger published

A neural network helped Mona Lisa get in touch with her feelings.

Why Is This Viral Image of Unrecognizable Objects So Creepy?

By Mindy Weisberger published

What do you see in this picture? Are you sure?

AI Is Good (Perhaps Too Good) at Predicting Who Will Die Prematurely

By Mindy Weisberger published

Medical researchers have unlocked an unsettling ability in artificial intelligence.

AI Sucks at Making Adorable Cat Photos, Clearly Misses the Entire Point of the Internet

By Mindy Weisberger published

When neural networks attempted to create images of cats, the results were cat-astrophic.