Defeated by AI, a legend in the board game Go warns: Get ready for what’s next
Lee Saedol was the finest Go player of his generation when he suffered a decisive loss, defeated not by a…
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For older people who are lonely, is the solution a robot friend?
ElliQ, a voice-activated robotic companion powered by artificial intelligence, is part of a New York state effort to ease the…
AI is effectively ‘useless’ – and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns
Promises of new developments like personal robot assistants and miracle cancer cures are ubiquitous as executives take every opportunity to…
Chinese AI can benefit from bigger models, more data, says startup founder
The founder of Stepfun, which develops foundational models, has set its sights on improving multimodal models as China faces curtailed…
Is AI a major drain on the world’s energy supply?
When Google announced last week that its climate emissions had risen by 48% since 2019, it pointed the finger at…
The voices of AI are telling us a lot
What does artificial intelligence (AI) sound like? Hollywood has been imagining it for decades. Now AI developers are cribbing from…
AI appears to discriminate against people with disabilities
Bias has long been a problem for AI and algorithms, and such software has previously been shown to reflect and…
AI driving rise in Google’s greenhouse gas emissions, says company
According to Google’s latest environmental report, in 2023, green house gas emissions from the company were up 13% on 2022,…
What the arrival of AI phones and computers means for our data
Apple, Microsoft and Google are heralding a new era of what they describe as artificially intelligent smartphones and computers. The…