Text-to-image AI: powerful, easy-to-use technology for making art – and fakes
Dec 08, 2022 11:04 am UTC| Technology
Type Teddy bears working on new AI research on the moon in the 1980s into any of the recently released text-to-image artificial intelligence image generators, and after just a few seconds the sophisticated software will...
Why we need open-source science innovation — not patents and paywalls
Dec 08, 2022 11:03 am UTC| Technology
As we prepare to invest money to prevent the next global pandemic and find solutions to many other problems, science funders have a large opportunity to move towards open science and more research collaboration by offering...
Dec 08, 2022 10:59 am UTC| Technology
Weve all had some kind of interaction with a chatbot. Its usually a little pop-up in the corner of a website, offering customer support often clunky to navigate and almost always frustratingly non-specific. But...
New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature
Dec 08, 2022 10:56 am UTC| Technology
Heres the basic problem for conservation at a global level: food production, biodiversity and carbon storage in ecosystems are competing for the same land. As humans demand more food, so more forests and other natural...
Internet search results could be increasing your carbon emissions
Dec 08, 2022 10:47 am UTC| Technology
Almost everyone thinks they know how to use Google, and they usually get the answer they want. Many will intuitively know that the query milk good for you leads to different results than milk bad for you. The same goes for...
Can machines invent things without human help? These AI examples show the answer is ‘yes’
Dec 08, 2022 10:44 am UTC| Technology
The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can invent is nearly 200 years old, going back to the very beginning of computing. Victorian mathematician Ada Lovelace wrote whats generally considered the first...
Dec 08, 2022 10:08 am UTC| Technology Business
Meta is the latest Big Tech to reinforce its policy that prohibits employees from discussing sensitive and political topics in the workplace. The company has expanded the list of topics after banning discussions about...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects