Artificial Intelligence

Google’s new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics

While new machine-learning techniques that predict weather by learning from years of past data are extremely fast and efficient, they can struggle...

AI companies promised to self-regulate one year ago. What’s changed?

RESULT: Good. This is an encouraging result overall. While watermarking remains experimental and is still unreliable, it’s still good to see research...

The Download: Technological complexity, and climate change Catan

The philosopher Karl Popper once argued that there are two kinds of problems in the world: clock problems and cloud problems. As...

The Visual Haystacks Benchmark! – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog

Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Over...

Can consciousness exist in a computer simulation?

Would it be desirable for artificial intelligence to develop consciousness? Not really, for a variety of reasons, according to Dr. Wanja Wiese from...

The Download: Windows’ CrowdStrike outage, and wildfire-tracking balloons

What’s happening? Windows PCs have crashed around the world, bringing airlines, major banks, TV broadcasters, healthcare providers and other businesses to a...

How to fix a Windows PC affected by the global outage

The problem stems from a defect in a single content update for Windows machines from the cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike. George Kurtz, CrowdStrike’s...

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