The Internet is a vast ocean of human knowledge, but it isn’t infinite. And artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have nearly sucked it dry. The past decade of explosive improvement in AI has been driven in large part by making neural networks bigger and training them on ever-more data. This scaling has proved surprisingly effective at […]
Sam Altman of OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, says that machines will create superintelligence. Research is needed to verify these and other claims.Credit: Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty “It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there.” So wrote Sam Altman, the […]
OpenAI’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) system dropped in September with a bold promise. The company behind the chatbot ChatGPT showcased o1 — its latest suite of large language models (LLMs) — as having a “new level of AI capability”. OpenAI, which is based in San Francisco, California, claims that o1 works in a way that […]
ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence system that learns from large amounts of human-produced data.Credit: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty In the two years since ChatGPT was released to the publicresearchers have been using it to polish their academic writing, review the scientific literature and write code to analyse data. Although some think that the chatbot, […]
PASADENA, CA – MAY 14: Job seekers look over job opening fliers at the WorkSource exhibit, a … [+] collaborative effort by governmental agencies to offer jobs and job training resources at the Greater Los Angeles Career Expo at the Pasadena Convention Center on May 14, 2009 in Pasadena, California. Nineteen exhibitors offer job and […]
From repealing climate policies to overturning guidance on the safe development of artificial intelligence (AI), Republican Donald Trump made plenty of promises during his presidential campaign that could affect scientists and science policy. But fulfilling all of his pledges won’t be easy. The US is the world’s science superpower — but for how long? Trump, […]
An advanced ‘in memory’ computing chip developed by researchers from Princeton University, New Jersey, and US firm EnCharge AI. Credit: Scott Lyon In the late 1990s, some computer scientists realized that they were hurtling towards disaster. Makers of computer chips had been able to make computers more powerful on a reliable schedule by cramming ever […]
Computer scientists have embraced the use of artificial-intelligence tools. Credit: James MacDonald/Bloomberg/Getty Papers with titles or abstracts that mention certain artificial intelligence (AI) methods are more likely to be among the top 5% most-cited works in their field for a given year than are those that don’t reference those techniques, an analysis has found. These […]
Google’s Sycamore processor uses quantum bits, or qubits, to run algorithms.Credit: Peter Kneffel/dpa/Alamy Ever since the first quantum computers were dreamt up in the early 1980s, researchers have looked forward to the day the devices could solve problems that are too difficult for classical computers. In the past five years, the machines have finally begun […]
Joe Spring Associate Editor, Science The stories on artificial intelligence’s improving ability to predict extreme weather often begin with powerful hurricanes. As Scientific American detailed this year, when Hurricane Lee was moving through the Atlantic Ocean last September, scientists using traditional weather models got a clear idea of where the hurricane would go just six […]
