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Google says its Gemini AI outperforms both GPT-4 and expert humans

The Gemini artificial intelligence comes in a variety of sizes, with Google saying its mid-range version will be incorporated into its Bard chatbot and available to the public from today

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The roboticist who wants to bring AI into contact with the real world

Technology

The roboticist who wants to bring AI into contact with the real world

Features

ChatGPT Open AI chat bot on phone screen

Technology

GPT-4 developer tool can be exploited for misuse with no easy fix

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The Future of Language review: Powerful tech will change everything

Mind

The Future of Language review: Powerful tech will change everything

Culture

Striated caracara on the Falkland Islands

Video

Striated caracara's puzzle-solving matches that of clever cockatoos

Video

Humans

Did Homo naledi bury its dead? Debate rages over human relative

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This robot can manage to pick up several items of clothing at once

Technology

AI cleaning robot can tidy up clothes in a messy bedroom

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The caudate nuclei, parts of the brain affected by Huntington's disease

Health

Mutation behind Huntington's linked to higher childhood intelligence

Analysis

Technology

NVIDIA wants to use AI chatbots to help build better chips

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Not to be used in museums, exhibitions, or articles about Elisabeth Daynes or the Atelier Daynes. No use in any context outside of mainstream science without the express permission of Atelier Daynes. Front covers or private use require clearance. Mandatory credit. Paranthropus boisei model. Reconstruction of a specimen of Paranthropus boisei. This hominin, which is sometimes classified as Australopithecus boisei, lived from 2.3 to 1.2 million years ago in eastern Africa. P. boisei is one of several extinct species that form an early part of the human evolutionary tree. Reconstruction by Elisabeth Daynes of the Daynes Studio, Paris, France. MANDATORY CREDIT.

Humans

How did Paranthropus, the last of the ape-people, survive for so long?

Paranthropus was an ape-like hominin that lived on in a world dominated by big-brained early humans. Recent archaeological discoveries, like stone tools, are revealing how they lived

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Technology

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman lands new job at Microsoft after surprise firing

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Technology

How the US and China talking AI safety could reduce nuclear war risk

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Technology

GPT-4 gives medical advice that saves doctors' time but can be harmful

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Mind

How AI avatars of the deceased could transform the way we grieve

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