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AI trained on novels tracks how racist and sexist biases have evolved

20 February 2025

Questioning a chatbot that has been trained on bestselling books from a particular decade can give researchers a measure of the social biases of that era

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AI creates a realistic video of you dancing from a single still image

19 July 2023

An artificial intelligence trained on TikTok videos could help you take part in dance trends without moving a muscle

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

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AI recap this month: Drone 'kills' operator; DeepMind's speed up

29 June 2023

Research into AI is experiencing a boom, so we have rounded up the best of news from the past month to help you keep up to date

AIs will become useless if they keep learning from other AIs

16 June 2023

If language models such as ChatGPT are trained using the outputs of other AIs, they will become heavily biased, overly simplistic and disconnected from reality, researchers warn

DeepMind AI's new way to sort objects could speed up global computing

7 June 2023

Sorting algorithms are basic functions used constantly by computers around the world, so an improved one created by an artificial intelligence could make millions of programs run faster

Software update for world’s wind farms could power millions more homes

21 May 2023

An AI that predicts wind changes could boost wind turbine efficiency by 0.3 per cent, which globally would amount to enough extra electricity to keep a country running

AI can work out how quantum computers stack up to one another

12 May 2023

Comparing the properties of qubits in different quantum computers is challenging, but AI can tell them apart even when the state of the qubits is 98 per cent similar

How Elon Musk and Reddit are leading a war on AI web scraping

5 May 2023

The long-accepted practice of search engines scraping content from websites is being re-examined now that the data is being used to build valuable artificial intelligence tools