UK firms exposed to AI are cutting junior jobs first
A King's College London study of millions of UK job postings finds entry-level roles shrink first, while Goldman Sachs finds AI also adds jobs.
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IBM rebuilt Deep Blue's chess chip before beating Kasparov
After losing to Garry Kasparov in 1996, IBM doubled Deep Blue's speed and taught it to bide its time before opening a file. In May 1997 it won.
Best AI: a different winner for every task
There is no single best AI. Testers who compare notetakers, chatbots, or raw models each crown a different winner, and the field moves too fast to settle.
A surgeon still controls the surgical robots used on patients
A surgeon drives the surgical robots used on patients today, from an NHS console to the labs training robots to work with less help.
Newsrooms take bystander video apart to test rival accounts
Newsrooms sync bystander clips frame by frame. In Minneapolis that showed the car turned away from the ICE agent. On Gaza, teams reached clashing verdicts.
Anthropic's alignment lead puts AI extinction risk above 10%
In a 2024 survey of nearly 3,000 AI researchers, over half put the odds of AI causing human extinction or disempowerment at 10 per cent or more.
How AlphaFold changed protein structure prediction
AlphaFold predicts a protein's shape in days rather than years of lab work. It still cannot show how a protein changes over time or behaves inside a cell.
Two scholars needed a year to rebuild one Dead Sea scroll
Searches of 11 caves yielded around 900 Dead Sea Scrolls, mostly fragments. Rebuilding is slow, and a neural network has told two scribes apart.
Why humanoid robots still struggle with balance and hands
A humanoid must balance on two legs, match a human hand and learn from demonstration. Figure and Tesla are trying, and Rodney Brooks sees a bubble.
UK hiring confidence is at its lowest outside the pandemic
A CIPD survey of more than 2,000 employers finds one in six expect AI to shrink their workforce next year, against 6% who expect it to grow.
Will AI replace lawyers? Trainees are the first to feel it
A Harvard Law School centre reports AI cutting junior legal roles, yet the US Bureau of Labor Statistics still forecasts 4% growth in lawyer jobs.
Alan Turing swapped 'Can machines think?' for a game
Alan Turing's 1950 imitation game asks a judge to tell human from machine by typed questions. His own sample machine got a sum wrong.
Employers are retraining staff instead of hiring AI engineers
Job postings for generative AI skills rose 1,848% in 2023, and companies short of engineers to hire are retraining the staff they already have.
Fei-Fei Li built ImageNet while her field doubted data
Colleagues told Fei-Fei Li her plan to label 14 million images went too far. Three years after its release, it helped set off the deep learning boom.
Why AI's water use is so hard to pin down
AI uses water mostly to cool data centre chips, but how much depends on the site, the season and the cooling design. Nobody yet agrees how to count it.