Field: AI

Mixed reality, in which immersive virtual content is seamlessly combined with our physical world, is set to transform the world.

DARPA is developing AI assistants that will display instructions to military personnel through augmented reality headsets.

Autonomous race cars took to the track at CES, opening new forms of competition and setting speed records.

AI technology could transform how growers protect their harvests, by detecting plant diseases very early on.

Mercedes-Benz has permission to deploy its Level 3 autonomous driving system, DRIVE PILOT, in Nevada, and California could soon follow.

Microsoft has unveiled VALL-E, a voice-cloning AI that only needs a 3-second sample to simulate a speaker’s voice with remarkable accuracy.

Can an astrophysicist get ChatGPT to learn and assimilate new information and give correct answers where it gave confident but false ones?

A new generation of elevator technology may soon change the way you ride.

Donut company Krispy Kreme is investing in automated systems to take over functions currently completed by human workers.

Celebrity humanoid Sophia the robot shares her “thoughts” on climate change, Elon Musk, and more with Freethink.

AI like ChatGPT is forcing us to rethink education. But if we embrace it, it could empower both students and teachers.

McDonald’s has opened a new highly automated restaurant, giving customers a first look at the potential future of fast food.

Sophia the robot has signed to XSET, a gaming organization and lifestyle brand focused on diversity and inclusion.

A microbiologist devised a quiz that would be appropriate as a final exam for college-level microbiology students. ChatGPT blew it away.

The tech behind ChatGPT isn’t ready to overthrow Google, but it could fix what’s wrong with search engines.

It's made headlines so often that there is no question that 2022 will be remembered as the year that Generative AI stunned the world.

The ad-free Neeva search engine is adding an AI feature that will answer user queries with conversational text, rather than lists of links.

The Chroma AI's ability to design proteins with structures no one has ever seen before could revolutionize medicine.

Internet users are getting creative with OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, using it to plot movies, write menus, and more.

Tech giant Naver Corporation designed its new headquarters, 1784, to be a "robot-friendly" testing ground for its latest technologies.

Freethink interviews OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an AI chatbot capable of generating conversational text, code, and more in response to prompts.

The new website From Numbers to Names uses facial recognition tech to identify previously anonymous faces in Holocaust photos.

Integrating robots into walls, ceilings, furniture, and appliances could radically change our indoor spaces.

General Motors subsidiary Cruise is quickly expanding its commercial robotaxi service to more cities in the US.

A new study found that AI can use a patient’s initial skin cancer growth to predict their risk of melanoma recurrence.

Verge Genomics has begun a trial of their AI-found ALS drug candidate, one of the first tests for this new method of drug discovery.

Audio deepfakes potentially pose a huge threat, as people often communicate via phone calls, radio, and voice recordings.

Shutterstock will make AI-generated images available on its website, while also compensating creators for helping train the AI.

There is currently no possibility of the world reaching the 30% target for marine protected areas with existing policies. Tech to the rescue?

Carbon Robotics’ LaserWeeder is a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then kills them using high-power lasers.

New AI tools are helping doctors screen healthy patients for diseases early, when treatments are most effective.

Combating the rise of facial-recognition technology, designers have created clothing and accessories to help to conceal people's identities.

CEO Elon Musk unveiled two prototypes of the humanoid Tesla robot, expected to cost less than $20,000, at his company’s second annual AI Day.

Generative AI systems are incredible and hugely important, but they are not creative. In fact, they’re not even intelligent.

New funding will allow Seattle-based startup Artly Coffee to bring its robot barista to more US locations.

Retired actor Bruce Willis had a "digital twin" made so that his likeness could be inserted into a new project using deepfake tech.

Scientists trained a neural network to predict the movements of Mars and the Sun, which placed the Sun at the center of our solar system.

Stable Diffusion, an open-source text-to-image AI, has been modified to generate Pokémon-like characters from simple text prompts.

DALL-E and other types of generative AI can produce images that look like photographs, paintings, or drawings that were created by humans.

A robot that uses AI and 3D cameras to paint fingernails is now giving Target customers 10-minute manicures for just $8.

Meta has created an AI that can tell what you’re hearing based on non-invasive brain scan measurements.

Echonet, an AI trained to assess a measure of heart function, has outperformed trained technicians in both accuracy and efficiency.

When USC researchers tried to teach an AI simple fables, they discovered that the process is a lot harder than it sounds.

New research from Waymo points the way to overcoming driver fatigue in cars that are almost — but not quite — self-driving.

A Stanford-led team has developed a new microchip that could let us run advanced AI programs directly on our devices.

A new AI for spotting sepsis, which accounts for ⅓ of hospital deaths, was found to be effective in a large trial.

Researchers use machine learning to automatically solve, explain, and generate university-level math problems at a human level.

Motional and Lyft are now offering robotaxi rides in Las Vegas.

Text-to-image AIs that draw whatever you describe in text are making it easy for anyone to create unique art online.

Are we really only a moment away from "The Singularity," a technological epoch that will usher in a new era in human evolution?

MIT scientists unveil the first open-source simulation engine capable of constructing realistic environments for autonomous vehicles.

Using AI and analysis, Theator is helping surgeons improve how pilots and pro athletes do: by going to the tape.

Robot litter picker, the BeachBot, uses artificial intelligence to detect trash like cigarette butts and help clean up beaches.

Engineers have created an AI chip with alternating layers of sensing and processing elements that can communicate with each other.

We had a challenging question for the AI AlphaFold – had its structural training set taught it some chemistry?

The Gene Ranking Artificial Intelligence Network (GRAIN) identifies genes that act at a fundamental level in crop metabolism.

Technology will not save the world, and it is inherently neither good nor bad. But, when tech is coupled to human virtue, good will prevail.

An underwater garden off the coast of Italy is introducing the world to a new type of sustainable agriculture.

Google can make AI seem sentient, but the AI has no understanding of what it is saying. But humans are easily fooled by conversational AI.

Autonomous ships like the Prism Courage could make the seas safer, while also making shipping cleaner and more efficient.

Advanced neuroprosthetics are here, and they could hook our brains into the Internet of Things.

The technology is enabling law enforcement to shine a light on the darkest corners of the open internet.

Inspired by the ancient compound eyes of the trilobite, researchers have created a record-breaking camera with a depth of field of just over a mile.

AI research lab ​​DeepMind, a sister company of Google, has purchased and open-sourced the powerful robot simulator MuJoCo.

Combining satellite and Street View images, Google Maps’ “immersive view” will let you explore select neighborhoods soon.

Thanks to AI, digital avatars, and robotic cannons, John McEnroe is taking on his toughest opponent: himself.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar harnesses the artistic power of deepfake technology in the new music video for his song “The Heart Part 5.”

Metaverse company Somnium Space wants to create digital versions of you to live on after you pass, the newest example of digitized death-defying.

Animal behavior researchers can now turn the task of analyzing footage over to an open-source algorithm that can spot even subtle actions.

MIT has developed a new method for quickly and easily evaluating machine learning decisions, which could help us build trustworthy AI.

Fake faces created by artificial intelligence (AI) are considered more trustworthy than images of real people, a study finds.

Researchers at UC Irvine have created a proof-of-concept AI that can take night vision images and accurately turn them into full color.

A new technique compares the reasoning of a machine-learning model to that of a human, so the user can see patterns in the model’s behavior.

Facing a skilled labor crunch, companies are turning to autonomous forklift fleets for a safer, faster, more efficient work environment.

An “electronic nose” that can accurately identify a whiskey’s brand, region, and style could help combat the sale of counterfeit whiskey.

Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.

AI drug discovery models can be repurposed to darker ends — instead of discovering new treatments, they could create thousands of brand new chemical weapons.

The cyborg cockroaches are outfitted with sensors that can identify heat, carbon dioxide, and body movements.

Inspired by birds' perching abilities, researchers developed a drone with a bird-like structure that can land on a wide array of objects.

Defending against cyberattacks increasingly means looking for patterns in large amounts of data – a task AI was made for.

Driverless cars no longer need to have manual controls, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s safety standards.

An Oculus exec has publicly bet $10,000 that vehicles with Level 5 autonomy will arrive on city streets by 2030.

Self-driving cars could impact the future of economics, equity, privacy, and city planning.

DeepMind has co-developed an AI capable of controlling the super-hot plasma inside a tokamak fusion reactor.

GM and Cruise have asked the NHTSA for permission to build and deploy their Cruise Origin, a self-driving car with no steering wheel.

Natilus is developing huge autonomous cargo drones that could cut the cost of air freight by 60% and reduce its carbon emissions by 50%.

An android child capable of expressing six emotions puts us one step closer to a future in which we share our homes with companion robots.

The U.S. Army has given a Black Hawk helicopter the ability to complete an autonomous flight without any humans on board.

A robot dog reached the summit of an Alps trail more quickly than the average human — and the mechanical K9s are just getting started.

DHL Supply Chain is paying Boston Dynamics $15 million for a fleet of its autonomous warehouse robots, which can each move 800 boxes/hour.

Three former SpaceX engineers have launched a startup to replace traditional freight trains with autonomous, battery-powered railcars.

Autonomous vehicle maker Nuro has added external airbags to its autonomous delivery robots to protect pedestrians.

A personal robot that carries items between different parts of a home is helping people with mobility issues live more independently.

Goodyear’s airless tires are now being used by a fleet of Starship's autonomous delivery robots on a college campus in the U.S.

John Deere has just debuted an autonomous tractor it plans to sell in 2022 — bringing the self-driving tech into the mainstream.

HereAfter AI’s Legacy Avatar is an AI-powered digital twin. But what’s it like to talk to yourself?

Chicago’s Surgical Innovation Training Lab is developing the robots, surgeons, and digital surgeries of the future.

Natural language processing tools are growing increasingly sophisticated, and OpenAI's GPT-3 just might fool you in a conversation.

An autonomous shuttle developed by Ford delivers fresh produce and milk to food insecure seniors in Detroit as part of a new pilot program.

Researchers have created a salt-grain sized micro camera capable of taking images almost on par with a regular camera.