NASA and ESA are preparing a “digital twin” of Earth
As extreme weather events become more frequent around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our increasingly warm planet grows. Climate research involves not only studying these events but also enabling external researchers to do the same. Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) represent a powerful tool for achieving these goals.
New developments in synthetic cells and artificial intelligence
Cells are the fundamental units of life, comprising the diversity of all living things on Earth, both individual cells and multicellular organisms. To better understand how cells perform life’s most important functions, scientists have begun developing synthetic cells—non-living fragments of cellular biochemistry enclosed in a membrane that mimics specific biological processes.
A couple of ideas for using artificial intelligence in disease diagnosis and treatment
Scientists will be able to understand the nature of most diseases within three to five years using artificial intelligence and find the key to their treatment, according to Stéphane Bancel, CEO of the American biotech company Moderna.
Ethical issues of artificial intelligence
According to a new analysis of thousands of expert opinions, the emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI)—an AI system with superhuman intelligence capable of successfully solving a variety of problems—is a matter of when, not if. The development of AGI has been spurred by the rapid advancement of large-scale language models (LLMs) based on Transformers. This technology underlies chatbots like ChatGPT and image generators like Dall-E. Before these advances, some scientists in 2019 predicted that AGI would emerge by 2060, and perhaps never.
Artificial General Intelligence and Hybrid Intelligence
The development of artificial intelligence is accelerating: some scientists predict that within the next few years, machines will become smarter than even the smartest humans. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) research in which scientists strive to create a computer system that is generally smarter than humans. These hypothetical systems could possess a degree of self-awareness and self-control, including the ability to edit their own code, and be able to learn to solve problems like humans, without specialized training.
A new computer algorithm converts human thoughts into text
An enhancement to an existing AI-powered brain decoder can translate human thoughts into text without hours of training. Scientists have made new improvements to a “brain decoder” that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to convert thoughts into text. The AI model can scan a person’s brain using non-invasive equipment and convert thoughts into written sentences—without the need for implants.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for the invention of machine learning using artificial neural networks
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto “for their fundamental discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning using artificial neural networks.” Geoffrey Hinton, the 2024 Nobel laureate in Physics, expressed concerns about his own discoveries and inventions that made machine learning possible using artificial neural networks.
75% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are not trackable
An innovative study by Sentinel-1 and AI (European Space Agency) combining satellite data and artificial intelligence has shed light on the number of ships, wind turbines and oil platforms at sea. Shockingly, the study shows that about 75% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels were previously hidden from publicly available tracking systems. The study, published recently in the journal Nature, was conducted by Global Fishing Watch, an organization that seeks to improve ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea.
The UN and UNESCO drew attention to the problems of artificial intelligence
“The existential risk does not come from a robot-created Armageddon that will lead to our demise. The real existential risk is that we will all go crazy because we can’t believe what we see, hear or read… The fact that we have raised this conversation on a global level gives me great hope. The media has a very important role to play and it must reclaim its role as the “fourth estate” and we need it now more than ever. There are many ways to fact check the news, and that is what serious media organizations should be doing,” said Carme Artigas, co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Body.