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Technology

AIs are more likely to mislead people if trained on human feedback 

If artificial intelligence chatbots are fine-tuned to improve their responses using human feedback, they can become more likely to give deceptive answers that seem right but aren’t

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Life

Bacteria can work as a team to spot prime numbers and vowels

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Life

Giant rats trained to sniff out illegal wildlife trade

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Technology

Smart speakers at crime scenes could provide valuable clues to police

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AI eye technology worn by Julie Hoeflinger, analysing a skull

Video

Can AI make crime scene investigations less biased?

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Mathematics

Mathematicians can't agree what 'equals' means, and that's a problem

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The team's graphene device, grown on a silicon carbide substrate chip

Physics

First working graphene semiconductor could lead to faster computers

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Technology

China’s first underwater data centre is being installed

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Technology

Cheap salty solution cools computers and boosts performance by a third

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Technology

Fastest ever semiconductor could massively speed up computer chips

A record-breaking superatomic semiconductor material allows particles to traverse it between 100 and 1000 times faster than electrons pass through a silicon chip

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Technology

Tricks for making AI chatbots break rules are freely available online

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Mathematics

Should all mathematical proofs be checked by a computer?

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Technology

Memcomputer chips could solve tasks that defeat conventional computers

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Technology

What is the AI alignment problem and how can it be solved?

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