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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

DeepMind AI learns physics by watching videos that don't make sense

11 July 2022

An algorithm created by AI firm DeepMind can distinguish between videos in which objects obey the laws of physics and ones where they don't

Tesla is building an AI humanoid robot called Optimus, says Elon Musk

20 August 2021

Tesla will branch out from building electric, self-driving cars to produce humanoid robots designed to “eliminate dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks”, says the company's founder Elon Musk

DeepMind's AI uncovers structure of 98.5 per cent of human proteins

22 July 2021

Deepmind's AlphaFold can predict the shapes of nearly all proteins in the human body, paving the way for the development of new drugs, and the company aims to use this AI to publish the structures of more than 100 million known proteins

GitHub's programming AI may be reusing code without permission

8 July 2021

A Microsoft-owned tool powered by artificial intelligence is designed to make life easier for programmers, but some developers say it may be repurposing some of the billions of lines of code it was trained on without permission

AI-generated tongue could make game characters look more realistic

6 July 2021

Without a realistic tongue, characters in computer games look strange when they talk – but there is now an AI-generated solution

AI clears up images of fingerprints to help with identification

28 June 2021

An AI that can repair blurred or distorted images of fingerprints lifted from crime scenes could make identifying people easier, but it is unclear whether such evidence would stand up in court

Google is using AI to design processors that run AI more efficiently

9 June 2021

Google creates custom processors to run its various artificial intelligence algorithms, and now it has tasked an AI with speeding up the process of designing more efficient chips

Artificial intelligence (AI)

10 June 2019

Artificial intelligence or AI simply means software used by computers to mimic aspects of human intelligence. For example, a program that recommends what you should read based on books you’ve bought or a robot vacuum that has a basic grasp of the world...