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How Singapore became the ideal testing ground for self-driving cars

Singapore is deploying more self-driving buses, freight vehicles, and street sweepers…Autonomous vehicles are a way to address labor shortages and use scarce land more efficiently.

November 25, 2024
How Singapore became the ideal testing ground for self-driving cars
A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness

A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot...The chatbot, from the company OpenAI, scored an average of 90 percent when diagnosing a medical condition from a case report and explaining its reasoning. Doctors randomly assigned to use the chatbot got an average score of 76 percent. Those randomly assigned not to use it had an average score of 74 percent.

November 17, 2024
A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
The First Entirely AI-Generated Video Game Is Insanely Weird and Fun

Generative AI may transform video game design, but the first playable title is just bizarre and fascinating.

November 13, 2024
The First Entirely AI-Generated Video Game Is Insanely Weird and Fun
Artificial Photosynthesis Breakthrough: Revolutionary Gel Turns Sunlight Directly Into Clean Fuel

A new hydrogel developed by Japanese scientists uses sunlight to efficiently produce hydrogen from water, mimicking natural photosynthesis.

November 12, 2024
Artificial Photosynthesis Breakthrough: Revolutionary Gel Turns Sunlight Directly Into Clean Fuel
Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor

The successful use of imitation learning to train surgical robots eliminates the need to program robots with each individual move required during a medical procedure and brings the field of robotic surgery closer to true autonomy, where robots could perform complex surgeries without human help.

November 11, 2024
Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor
Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

AI assistance can significantly improve productivity and satisfaction…Because AI tools have an equalizing effect on performance, they may also promote equality in a famously unequal profession….law schools, lawyers, judges, and clients should affirmatively embrace AI tools and plan for a future in which they will become widespread.

November 9, 2024
Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million

The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence. Its creator is a robot named Ai-Da that resembles a woman with a bob haircut.

November 8, 2024
Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million
Artificial intelligence 'spotted' my breast cancer

The 68-year-old's cancerous cells were almost undetectable and had not been spotted before they were found by AI.

November 7, 2024
Artificial intelligence 'spotted' my breast cancer
Why AI could eat quantum computing’s lunch

Rapid advances in applying artificial intelligence to simulations in physics and chemistry have some people questioning whether we will even need quantum computers at all.

November 7, 2024
Why AI could eat quantum computing’s lunch
AI-driven mobile robots team up to tackle chemical synthesis

…researchers show how mobile robots that use AI logic to make decisions were able to perform exploratory chemistry research tasks to the same level as humans, but much faster.

November 7, 2024
AI-driven mobile robots team up to tackle chemical synthesis