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 […]
Researchers built an artificial intelligence tool that came up with 4000 novel research ideas in a matter of hours. Credit: Malte Mueller/Getty An ideas generator powered by artificial intelligence (AI) came up with more original research ideas than did 50 scientists working independently, according to a preprint posted on arXiv this month1. The human and […]
