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Forensic scientists have a new fingerprint-matching tool in their arsenal thanks to AI, but it's sparked a controversy
By Ben Turner published
The new technique uses a machine learning tool to match prints from different digits belonging to the same person, but forensic scientists disagree on its utility.
Want to ask ChatGPT about your kid's symptoms? Think again — it's right only 17% of the time
By Nic Fearn published
The AI chatbot provided incorrect diagnoses in 72 pediatric cases from a sample of 100 historic cases, while offering diagnoses in a further 11 that were deemed too broad to be correct.
Last year AI entered our lives — is 2024 the year it'll change them?
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Artificial intelligence (AI) will be featured heavily in products at CES 2024, with devices and software benefiting from highly sophisticated in-built AI tools. So is 2024 the year AI changes our lives?
3 scary breakthroughs AI will make in 2024
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Although 2023 was a game-changing year for artificial intelligence, it was only the beginning, with 2024 set to usher in a host of scary advancements that may include artificial general intelligence and even more realistic deepfakes.
ChatGPT will lie, cheat and use insider trading when under pressure to make money, research shows
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Scientists trained GPT-4 to be an AI trader for a fictional financial institution — and it performed insider trading when put under pressure to do well.
How to watch the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures online and on TV
By Alexander McNamara published
Every Christmas, the U.K.'s Royal Institution puts on a set of lectures, each exploring a fascinating subject in science. Here's how you can watch the Ri Christmas Lectures wherever you are.
AI faces are 'more real' than human faces — but only if they're white
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
People deem AI faces as being more 'real' than pictures of the people the algorithms are trained on — but only if these AI-generated faces are white.
Gemini AI: What do we know about Google's answer to ChatGPT?
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Most AI models like ChatGPT can only understand and generate one type of content — like text, audio, images or video — but Google's Gemini can generate them all.
This AI model can tell if you're at high risk of lung cancer by analyzing a single X-ray scan
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
An AI model found that 28% of non-smokers are at high risk of developing lung cancer, with 2.9% of high-risk individuals developing the disease within six years.
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