Patients have been turning to Google for diagnoses for years. Now, as artificial intelligence enters the medical world, their doctors may join them. Hospitals and research centers have announced partnerships with AI creators like Google and Microsoft for the last…
While open-source artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, the military has explored using more advanced AI versions for years, from gathering intelligence, acquiring targets, streamlining decision-making, and analyzing data. Of course, we’re not the only ones interested in using…
Following significant staffing shortages, fast food restaurants are tentatively embracing artificially intelligent drive-thru bots. Staple chains such as Wendy’s, Del Taco, Hardee’s, and Carl’s Jr. are looking at the labor market and choosing to leap toward the future. Over 3.3…
Suppose a terrorist decides one day to aim a biological weapon at the world. Instead of hacking government resources, he turns to AI. Within hours, he’s developed literally thousands of models for potential biological weapons. It’s a scenario that sounds…
The world has been so crazy the past few years that something really wild might have snuck up on us. If you went to sleep in 2010, a mere 13 years ago, and woke up now, you’d see things you…
Some four hundred thousand visitors pass through the wrought iron gates of the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague each year, most of them, we may safely presume, with the intention of viewing the institution’s most prized possession: Johannes Vermeer’s Meisje…
Despite what some “experts” are saying, artificial intelligence (AI) will not destroy humanity — at least not more so than any other powerful technology with the ability to create havoc if used by people with malicious intent. Airplanes, for instance,…
“Manuscripts don’t burn,” or so the devil Woland tells us in Mikhail Bulgakov’s darkly comedic novel The Master and Margarita. In Bulgakov’s magical realist literary universe, the devil might very well pluck a manuscript unharmed from a blazing stove, but…
