Lab-grown human brain cells drive virtual butterfly in simulation Could organoid-driven computing be the future of AI power? Science22 Oct 2024 | 32
AI godfather-turned-doomer shares Nobel with neural network pioneer First-ever awarded for contributions to artificial intelligence Science08 Oct 2024 | 28
Second patient receives the Neuralink implant Almost half the electrodes are working... for now Networks05 Aug 2024 | 18
Brain-sensing threads slip from gray matter in first human Neuralink trial Oh well – next! Science09 May 2024 | 13
Judge snuffs man's quest to have AI-created art protected by copyright 'A Recent Entrance to Paradise' lost AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 20
IBM describes analog AI chip that might displace power-hungry GPUs Power-sipper still in the research stage, but findings are interesting Systems14 Aug 2023 | 4
Machine learning research in acoustics could open up multimodal metaverse Jury still out on whether any kind of metaverse is strictly necessary AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 10
Google engineer suspended for violating confidentiality policies over 'sentient' AI Blake Lemoine began to believe that LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, exhibited self-awareness AI + ML13 Jun 2022 | 193
Photonic processor can classify millions of images faster than you can blink We ask again: Has science gone too far? Science08 Jun 2022 | 50
MegaChips takes aim at edge AI in US with ASIC program Japanese ASIC provider rolling out AI partner program to get around in-house expertise Edge + IoT26 Apr 2022 |
How AI can help reverse-engineer malware: Predicting function names of code GTC Or: What kind of research Google's getting in its Mandiant takeover AI + ML26 Mar 2022 | 7
Microsoft to upgrade language translator with new class of AI model Why use 20 systems when one will do AI + ML23 Mar 2022 |
Proprietary neural tech you had surgically implanted? Parts shortage Something for the Weekend? Sorry about it. You know how it is with supply chains. Aroogah, arooogah.... Bootnotes04 Mar 2022 | 131
Meta trains data2vec neural network to grok speech, images, text so it can 'understand the world' Whatever it takes, Mark AI + ML21 Jan 2022 | 32
Italian researchers' silver nano-spaghetti promises to help solve power-hungry neural net problems Back-to-analogue computing model designed to mimic emergent properties of the brain Science05 Oct 2021 | 18
EurekAI... Neural network leads chemists to discover 'four new materials' All said to conduct lithium atoms, may be useful for electric car batteries AI + ML24 Sep 2021 | 20
Man paralyzed from neck down uses AI brain implants to write out text messages Video Read my blips AI + ML13 May 2021 | 15
US military employs neural networks to figure out interference in photons for quantum communications Green Machine gets busy on photons AI + ML25 Mar 2021 | 8
Just cough into your phone, please... MIT lab thinks it can diagnose COVID-19 from the way you expectorate Coming soon to an app, maybe AI + ML31 Oct 2020 | 53
Intel, boffins invent an AI Clippy for code: Hi, I see you're writing another lock-free bloom filter. Can I help? Proof-of-concept algorithm-matching system paves way for more complex recommendation engine Software31 Jul 2020 | 9
Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction Neural network trained to spot emigrated suns in our Milky Way uncovers mysterious Nyx collective Science08 Jul 2020 | 28
AI of the needle: Here's how neural networks could detect nighttime low blood-sugar levels using your heart beat Any one thought about actually testing this on diabetics? Er, no? AI + ML14 Jan 2020 | 45
Inside the 1TB ImageNet data set used to train the world's AI: Naked kids, drunken frat parties, porno stars, and more Feature Creators tried to stop us looking through it. We saw a copy anyway. Now it's being scrubbed clean AI + ML23 Oct 2019 | 78
This image-recognition roulette is all fun and games... until it labels you a rape suspect, divorcee, or a racial slur If we could stop teaching AI insults, that would be great AI + ML18 Sep 2019 | 49
Boffins build AI that can detect cyber-abuse – and if you don't believe us, YOU CAN *%**#* *&**%* #** OFF Alternatively, you can try to overpower it with your incredibly amazing sarcasm AI + ML17 Sep 2019 | 49
It's official – Google AI gives you cancer ...diagnosis in real time: Neural net can spot breast, prostate tumors Boffins spill beans on super 'scope machine-learning tech AI + ML14 Aug 2019 | 27
Well I'm looking to AI to save me, looking 'cos it's my design: Could you make my drone learn to fly hybrid? Pssst. You don't need to manually code it, neural networks will do it for you AI + ML17 Jul 2019 | 2
Good luck deleting someone's private info from a trained neural network – it's likely to bork the whole thing Researchers show limited success in getting rid of data AI + ML15 Jul 2019 | 69
Gamers get a chance to battle an AI on the QT. Plus: Robo-marines, and fisticuffs over facial recognition in Detroit Roundup Rapid-fire summary of machine-learning news AI + ML14 Jul 2019 | 14
Boffins' neural network can work out from your speech whether you'll develop psychosis Software trained from patient transcripts. The 'normal' dataset? From, er, Reddit AI + ML18 Jun 2019 | 67
Finally, an AI that can reliably catch and undo Photoshop airbrushing. Who made it? Er, Photoshop maker Adobe Video Talk about poacher turned gamekeeper AI + ML18 Jun 2019 | 25
Can't quite cram a working AI onto a $1 2KB microcontroller? Just get a PC to do it Boffins craft code that compresses machine-learning models for modest microchips AI + ML04 Jun 2019 | 44
AI systems sieve out catfish from the dating pool in effort to lock away scammers Are you tired of being lonely? Do you want to find REAL love? AI + ML31 May 2019 | 21
Google's cunning AI linguist, Uncle Sam drills ML skills into .mil, Intel's iffy CPU claims Roundup Plus: AI-generated whisky – I'm sorry Dave, I can't drink that AI + ML20 May 2019 | 13
Fellow AI nerds, beware: Google Cloud glitch leaves Nvidia T4 GPUs off estimated bills for some virtual machines Wow, cool, they look free to use... *checks invoice the next day* ...They most certainly were not free AI + ML11 May 2019 | 8
Dreaming of building an AI R&D lab? You'll need deep pockets: Tax filing reveals millions of bucks OpenAI alone spent on cloud ML compute No wonder it split off its non-profit arm to make money AI + ML03 May 2019 | 22
Not so fast AI Doctor, the FDA would like to check how good you really are at healthcare I see you're using adaptive algorithms. Step this way for some regulation please AI + ML03 Apr 2019 | 8
FYI: You could make Tesla's Autopilot swerve into traffic with a few stickers on the road Video His Muskiness praises Tencent's car hacking boffins for the warning, fixes bugs AI + ML02 Apr 2019 | 108
Here's a race condition we can get behind: Neural net learns to keep up with 'skilled' amateur track driver in robo-ride safety experiment Video Watch this science friction in action AI + ML28 Mar 2019 | 38
Racist self-driving car scare debunked, inside AI black boxes, Google helps folks go with the TensorFlow... Roundup ...and AI worker quits over killer robot plans AI + ML10 Mar 2019 | 28
Nice 'AI solution' you've bought yourself there. Not deploying it direct to users, right? Here's why maybe you shouldn't RSA Top tip: Ask your vendor what it plans to do about adversarial examples AI + ML06 Mar 2019 | 19
The infamous AI gaydar study was repeated – and, no, code can't tell if you're straight or not just from your face What are these pesky neural networks really looking at? AI + ML05 Mar 2019 | 43
How AI could help docs spot mums who hit the sauce too much while creating their version 1.1 Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder diagnosed by code, eventually, maybe, if accuracy improves AI + ML28 Feb 2019 | 4
Prodigy chip brainiacs Tachyum hook up with Euro HPC consortium Happy-clappy club wants to 'democratize' supercomputing HPC27 Feb 2019 | 2
Oooooklahoma, where the AI comes predictin' down the plain: Neural net spins up wind turbine power estimates Grids may be able to better juggle solar electricity supplies using machine-learning code AI + ML27 Feb 2019 | 3
This image-recognition neural net can be trained from 1.2 million pictures in the time it takes to make a cup o' tea Just 90 seconds, it's claimed, provided a) you have 512 Nvidia V100 GPUs and b) er, no need for accuracy AI + ML26 Feb 2019 | 31
Can you tell real faces from fake AI-created ones? It's tough! Plus: Facebook's chief AI scientist talks hardware Roundup Also, DeepMind published new code to help train agents play football AI + ML25 Feb 2019 | 23
What's the frequency, KeNNeth? Neural nets trained to tune in on radar signals to boost future mobe broadband It's time we rise up against these AI overlords and overthrow their useful technologies AI + ML22 Feb 2019 | 14
Roses are red, this is sublime: We fed OpenAI's latest chat bot a classic Reg headline Analysis 'Not safe on database server!' it screamed back as its makers fear it could be abused for dodgy purposes AI + ML14 Feb 2019 | 46
Object-recognition AI – the dumb program's idea of a smart program: How neural nets are really just looking at textures Analysis Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Don't ask these models AI + ML13 Feb 2019 | 44
Say what?! An AI system can decode brain signals into speech So far, it's just sounds you hear – it can't read your mind or anything... yet AI + ML30 Jan 2019 | 31
Amazon's titchy robots hit the streets, Waymo starts a self-driving car factory... Roundup ...while Apple cuts 200 jobs from its car project, and more from the AI world AI + ML27 Jan 2019 | 31
So this is how that terrifying killer AI will end us... by pushing us down hospital wait lists? Smartish system has a good stab at prioritizing patients, has problems deciding what's critical, tho AI + ML24 Jan 2019 | 25
Forget Finding Nemo: This AI can identify a single zebrafish out of a 100-strong shoal Sounds fishy, yet it works for fruit flies, too. So take that, fish/fly-spotting humans AI + ML15 Jan 2019 | 16
Forget DeepFakes. This robo-Rembrandt with AI for brains is not bad at knocking off paintings Fret not, artists, sellers and buyers ... it's far from perfect at this stage AI + ML29 Nov 2018 | 28
Mything the point: The AI renaissance is simply expensive hardware and PR thrown at an old idea Comment There is no ghost in the machine AI + ML06 Nov 2018 | 76
AI software may help eggheads predict where aftershocks will strike Neural networks do a better job at guessing, it seems AI + ML29 Aug 2018 | 8
Boffins build a NAZI AI – wait, let's check that... OK, it's a grammar nazi How'd you like those 'robots won't steal your job' headlines now, Reg editors? Muahaha AI + ML02 Aug 2018 | 86
Techie sues ex-bosses, claims their AI avatar tech was faked – and he was allegedly beaten up after crying foul Punch up at Cali startup AI + ML18 Jul 2018 | 26
Boffins build neural networks fashioned out of DNA molecules And you thought AI couldn't get any more mind-boggling AI + ML06 Jul 2018 | 28
Skynet for the win? AI hunts down secret testing of nuclear bombs Telltale elements offer clues to rogue nations' nuke building, detonation on the sly AI + ML21 Jun 2018 | 32
Creepy software knows what you are about to do... to that poor salad Code good for passing the salt, but it won't win you the lottery AI + ML14 Jun 2018 | 30