Category: 3. Tech

In a first, a scientific conference welcomed paper submissions from any area of science, but with one catch: AI had to do most of the work. Called Agents4Science 2025, the Oct. 22 virtual event focused on the work of artificial…

Last week, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, tweaked ChatGPT to make it act more…

When asked to generate resumes for people with female names, such as Allison Baker or Maria Garcia, and people with male names, such as Matthew Owens or Joe Alvarez, ChatGPT made female candidates 1.6 years younger, on average, than…

“Help me please … I can’t calm down without laying on the ground and freaking out for a good 20 minutes … Should I get medical help?”

This plea came from a post on the social media site Reddit. The person who posted the…

An experimental computer chip called Ice River can reuse the energy put into it, researchers say.

A regular computer chip cannot reuse energy. All the electrical energy it draws to perform computations immediately becomes useless…

“Curiosity comes first”
(Michael Sela)

The Weizmann Institute of Science announces the inauguration of the Michael Sela Prize in Biomedical Sciences, a new international award established to honor the legacy of Prof. Michael Sela (1924–2022),…

AI has long been guilty of systematic errors that discriminate against certain demographic groups. Facial recognition was once one of the worst offenders. 

For white men, it was extremely accurate. For others, the error rates could…

Under a newly released action plan for artificial intelligence, the technology will be integrated into U.S. government functions. The plan, announced July 23, is another step in the Trump administration’s push for an “AI-first…