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Autonomous ships are on the horizon: here’s what we need to know
Ships and ports are ripe for operation without humans — but only if the maritime industry can work through the practical, legal and economic implications first.
- Rudy R. Negenborn
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Outlook |
Why artificial intelligence needs to understand consequences
A machine with a grasp of cause and effect could learn more like a human, through imagination and regret.
- Neil Savage
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News & Views |
From the archive: machine intelligence, and the father of X-rays
Snippets from Nature’s past.
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AI weapons: Russia’s war in Ukraine shows why the world must enact a ban
Conflict pressures are pushing the world closer to autonomous weapons that can kill without human control. Researchers and the international community must join forces to prohibit them.
- Stuart Russell
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How Nature readers are using ChatGPT
Eighty per cent of respondents have used AI chatbots — and 57% say they use them for ‘creative fun’.
- Brian Owens
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How will AI change mathematics? Rise of chatbots highlights discussion
Machine-learning tools already help mathematicians to formulate new theories and solve tough problems. But they’re set to shake up the field even more.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science
Researchers are excited but apprehensive about the latest advances in artificial intelligence.
- Chris Stokel-Walker
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ChatGPT: five priorities for research
Conversational AI is a game-changer for science. Here’s how to respond.
- Eva A. M. van Dis
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Research Briefing |
A wearable ultrasound patch for continuous heart imaging
A new ultrasound patch can image the heart while being worn, even when the wearer is moving during strenuous exercise. A customized model that uses a technique of artificial intelligence called deep learning then processes the images to extract important measures of cardiac performance.
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‘Arms race with automation’: professors fret about AI-generated coursework
Instructors are rethinking student assignments to tackle an anticipated surge in bogus essays, a Nature poll finds.
- Amanda Heidt
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Tools such as ChatGPT threaten transparent science; here are our ground rules for their use
As researchers dive into the brave new world of advanced AI chatbots, publishers need to acknowledge their legitimate uses and lay down clear guidelines to avoid abuse.
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Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists
Researchers cannot always differentiate between AI-generated and original abstracts.
- Holly Else
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Technology Feature |
The reproducibility issues that haunt health-care AI
Health-care systems are rolling out artificial-intelligence tools for diagnosis and monitoring. But how reliable are the models?
- Emily Sohn
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AI system not yet ready to help peer reviewers assess research quality
Machine-learning tool needs to be more accurate before it can replace or aid human assessment in the UK Research Excellence Framework.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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After AlphaFold: protein-folding contest seeks next big breakthrough
Two years after DeepMind’s revolutionary AI swept a competition for predicting protein structures, researchers are building on AlphaFold’s success.
- Ewen Callaway
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Are ChatGPT and AlphaCode going to replace programmers?
OpenAI and DeepMind systems can now produce meaningful lines of code, but software engineers shouldn’t switch careers quite yet.
- Davide Castelvecchi
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DeepMind AI topples experts at complex game Stratego
Game-playing AIs that interact with humans are laying important groundwork for real-world applications.
- Anil Ananthaswamy
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Correspondence |
Food: use artificial intelligence to create new proteins
- Selena Ahmed
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| Open AccessSpatial genomics maps the structure, nature and evolution of cancer clones
A workflow centred around base-specific in situ sequencing generates detailed maps of, and can phenotypically characterize, the unique set of subclones of cancers.
- Artem Lomakin
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- & Lucy R. Yates
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Time to curb the data brokers
Governments should provide for digital public information infrastructure — but how?
- Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
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Outlook |
Could an algorithm predict the next pandemic?
Machine learning could help to identify the viruses most likely to spill over from animals to people and cause future pandemics.
- Simon Makin
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News & Views |
The unseen Black faces of AI algorithms
An audit of commercial facial-analysis tools found that dark-skinned faces are misclassified at a much higher rate than are faces from any other group. Four years on, the study is shaping research, regulation and commercial practices.
- Abeba Birhane
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Exoskeleton boots could power your walk by learning your stride
New design uses model based on lab data to adapt for wearers while in use.
- Dan Fox
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AI mathematician, tumour fungi and Africa’s coronavirus genomes
The latest science news, in brief.
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Research Briefing |
Artificial intelligence finds faster algorithms for multiplying matrices
An artificial-intelligence approach known as AlphaTensor found exact matrix-multiplication algorithms that are more efficient than those previously known for many matrix sizes. The technique advances understanding of this fundamental operation and opens up the potential to accelerate ubiquitous computations that involve matrix multiplications.
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DeepMind AI invents faster algorithms to solve tough maths puzzles
Machine-learning technique improves computing efficiency and could have far-reaching applications.
- Matthew Hutson
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AlphaFold developers win US$3-million Breakthrough Prize
DeepMind’s system for predicting the 3D structure of proteins is among five recipients of science’s most lucrative awards.
- Zeeya Merali
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News Round-Up |
Multicoloured Mars, drone delivery and dust-storm disease
The latest science news, in brief.
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How AlphaFold can realize AI’s full potential in structural biology
To make the most of artificial intelligence, data and software must be freely shared, and computational, theoretical and experimental researchers must work together closely.
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‘The entire protein universe’: AI predicts shape of nearly every known protein
DeepMind’s AlphaFold tool has determined the structures of around 200 million proteins.
- Ewen Callaway
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AI’s carbon footprint and a DNA nanomotor — the week in infographics
Nature highlights three key graphics from the week in science and research.
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Could machine learning fuel a reproducibility crisis in science?
‘Data leakage’ threatens the reliability of machine-learning use across disciplines, researchers warn.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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Outlook |
Learning over a lifetime
Artificial-intelligence researchers turn to lifelong learning in the hopes of making machine intelligence more adaptable.
- Neil Savage
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How to shrink AI’s ballooning carbon footprint
Emissions data for different locations could help researchers to reduce the environmental cost of machine-learning experiments.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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Africa: regulate surveillance technologies and personal data
CCTV cameras and spyware are proliferating in the continent without checks and balances. Governments must legislate locally to prevent civil-rights abuses.
- Bulelani Jili
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Building neural networks that smell like a brain
Computational neuroscientist Guangyu Robert Yang lifts the lid on the use of machine learning to detect and process odours, and the wider implications for neuroscience.
- Conor Purcell
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Correspondence |
Could artificial intelligence hijack author contributions?
- Akira Akabayashi
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Outlook |
Teaching robots to touch
Robots have become increasingly adept at interacting with the world around them. But to fulfil their potential, they also need a sense of touch.
- Marcus Woo
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How the revamped Large Hadron Collider will hunt for new physics
The particle-smashing machine has fired up again — sparking fresh hope it can find unusual results.
- Elizabeth Gibney
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News Q&A |
How language-generation AIs could transform science
Shobita Parthasarathy warns that software designed to summarize, translate and write like humans might exacerbate distrust in science.
- Richard Van Noorden
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News & Views |
A detector that can learn the fingerprint of light
The polarization, wavelength and power of a light wave can be simultaneously identified by a compact device made from twisted layers of carbon atoms — with a little help from an artificial neural network.
- Justin C. W. Song
- & Yidong Chong
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Outlook |
Breaking into the black box of artificial intelligence
Scientists are finding ways to explain the inner workings of complex machine-learning models.
- Neil Savage
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AI reads Greek, COVID’s catastrophe — the week in infographics
Nature highlights three key graphics from the week in science and research.
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The AI historian: A new tool to decipher ancient texts
The new neural network can help reconstruct missing parts of ancient inscriptions.
- Shamini Bundell
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AI minds the gap and fills in missing Greek inscriptions
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming many areas of research. A new AI tool helps to fill in missing text and estimate the timeframe and geographical origin of ancient inscriptions.
- Charlotte Roueché
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The AI that deciphers ancient Greek graffiti
An artificial intelligence that restores illegible inscriptions, and the project that's reintroducing lost species in Argentina.
- Nick Petrić Howe
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The evolution, evolvability and engineering of gene regulatory DNA
A framework for studying and engineering gene regulatory DNA sequences, based on deep neural sequence-to-expression models trained on large-scale libraries of random DNA, provides insight into the evolution, evolvability and fitness landscapes of regulatory DNA.
- Eeshit Dhaval Vaishnav
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- & Aviv Regev