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Google AI helps doctors decide whether to trust diagnoses made by AI

17 July 2023

Knowing when to say “I don’t know” is a key issue for artificial intelligence tools, which a new AI for clinical decision-making developed by Google aims to address

Videograb from Seeing the World through Your Eyes. Computer vision technology can reconstruct a 3D image of a scene displayed in the reflection of a person?s eyeball. Jia-Bin Huang and colleagues at the University of Maryland, College Park developed a computer vision model which takes between 5 and 15 photographs from different angles of an individual?s face while they look at a scene, and reconstructs the scene from the reflection in their eyeball using computer vision, a branch of machine learning. https://world-from-eyes.github.io/

Eyeball reflections can reveal a 3D model of what you are looking at

24 June 2023

A computer vision system uses photographs of someone’s face from different angles to reconstruct the scene they are viewing

Capital letter test is a foolproof way of sorting AIs from humans

26 May 2023

A trick for asking questions using capital letters seems to baffle artificial intelligences like ChatGPT, while humans can easily give the right answer

ChatGPT seems to be trained on copyrighted books like Harry Potter

5 May 2023

A test to see whether ChatGPT has memorised the contents of copyrighted material suggests it was trained on passages from Harry Potter, Game of Thrones and many other novels

Fluent answers from AI search engines are more likely to be wrong

27 April 2023

AI search engines like Microsoft's Bing Chat often fail to provide citations to back up statements, or cite information incorrectly - and this is more likely when answers sound more convincing

Tools to spot AI essays show bias against non-native English speakers

23 April 2023

Essays in English written by people from China were branded by text-analysis tools as being generated by artificial intelligence 61 per cent of the time

Electronic wound dressing releases drugs to help injuries heal

24 March 2023

A stretchable sticking plaster detects whether an injury is healing well and uses stimulating electrodes and microinjections of drugs to speed up the process

Longest dinosaur neck on record was six times longer than a giraffe's

15 March 2023

We only have a few fossil bones of Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum, but researchers have estimated its neck length by analysing its vertebrae and comparing them with those from related dinosaurs

Man in Florida killed by rare, brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri

3 March 2023

The Florida Department of Health announced this week that a man in the state has died after being infected by a microbe that damages brain tissue

ChatGPT can be made to write scam emails and it slashes their cost

3 March 2023

The impressive capabilities of ChatGPT can be turned to cybercrimes like phishing despite safety precautions taken by OpenAI to prevent misuse, warn researchers