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Chips linked with light could train AI faster while using less energy

A technology that packs more optical fibre connections onto chips could let them transmit 80 times as much information, speeding up AI training and slashing data centre energy costs

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Electric Dreams is past echo of today’s debates on AI-generated art

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AI can analyse a decomposing body to help pinpoint the time of death

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How a unique puppy kindergarten lab put the science into dog training

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How a unique puppy kindergarten lab put the science into dog training

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Our trust in society is eroding. We need to fight back

Society

Our trust in society is eroding. We need to fight back

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AI simulations of 1000 people accurately replicate their behaviour

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Google DeepMind AI can expertly fix errors in quantum computers

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People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson

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People prefer AI-generated poems to Shakespeare and Dickinson

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Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow down to the limb

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Google Street View helps map how 600,000 trees grow down to the limb

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Audio AIs are trained on data full of bias and offensive language

Seven major datasets used to train audio-generating AI models are three times more likely to use the words "man" or "men" than "woman" or "women", raising fears of bias

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AI helps robot dogs navigate the real world

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One in 20 new Wikipedia pages seem to be written with the help of AI

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Environment

Data centres may soon burn as much extra gas as California uses daily

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AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica’s penguins

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