Artificial intelligence is here, and it's transforming every aspect of science. From Google’s DeepMind discovering the structure of nearly every known protein to AI deciphering a 2,000-year-old "lost book," new and future computer systems that can outperform humans have near-infinite applications. But how concerned should we be with the rollout of AI, and what impact could this have on our world? Live Science's expert writers and editors search for answers to these questions and keep you tuned in to the wildest developments in machine learning with the latest AI news, articles and features.
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The US is squandering the one resource it needs to win the AI race with China — human intelligence
Opinion The release of DeepSeek was a reminder that the U.S. is not the assured frontrunner of AI development. As the race between China and the U.S. intensifies, is America inadvertently giving it's biggest rival a huge leg up?
Scientists discover major differences in how humans and AI 'think' — and the implications could be significant
Study finds that AI fundamentally lacks the human capability to make creative mental connections, raising warning signs for how we deploy AI tools.
AI models will lie to you to achieve their goals — and it doesn't take much
Researchers discover that the most advanced AI models may lie to their users when under pressure.
Traumatizing AI models by talking about war or violence makes them more anxious
A recent study exposing AI models to carefully designed prompts around trauma revealed they can get anxious, potentially affecting the conversation and having negative impacts on people who use such models to discuss their mental health.
Current AI models a 'dead end' for human-level intelligence, scientists agree
In a new survey, 76% of scientists said that scaling large language models was "unlikely" or "very unlikely" to achieve AGI.
New AI is better at weather prediction than supercomputers — and it consumes 1000s of times less energy
The Aardvark Weather machine learning algorithm is much faster than traditional systems and can work on a desktop computer.
Punishing AI doesn't stop it from lying and cheating — it just makes it hide better, study shows
Scientists at OpenAI have attempted to stop a frontier AI model from cheating and lying by punishing it. But this just taught it to scheme more privately.
Google's AI 'co-scientist' cracked 10-year superbug problem in just 2 days
Scientists took 10 years to figure out how one type of superbug gains its ability to infect diverse bacterial species. When prompted, Google's new AI "co-scientist" gave them the answer in two days.
China's Manus AI 'agent' could be our 1st glimpse at artificial general intelligence
Chinese startup Butterfly Effect has unveiled what it claims is the first general AI agent capable of acting autonomously.
People find AI more compassionate than mental health experts, study finds. What could this mean for future counseling?
People find AI more compassionate and understanding than human mental health experts, a new study shows. Even when participants knew that they were talking to a human or AI, the third-party assessors rated AI responses higher.
