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A Canadian artificial intelligence expert says society should ensure that AI is “properly governed” amid a push in the United States to place guardrails on the rapidly advancing technology.
Bobcat Cave near Huntsville is home to the endangered Alabama cave shrimp, two species of cave crayfish and the southern cavefish. Those were all Dr. Matthew Niemiller expected to find when he set out to survey the cave system last year.
Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says the government wants input from Canadians about the transparency of artificial intelligence systems.
Similar fakes have had real-world impacts. In 2023, an AI image depicting an explosion at the Pentagon briefly rattled the markets.
By comparison, it took Facebook six years after launching its social network to reach one billion users.
Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could have an atmosphere, making it potentially suitable for life.
A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago.
JAXA and the European Space Agency have teamed up on another so-called “planetary defence” mission to explore the asteroid Apophis, which will pass close to Earth in April 2029.
Griefbots may be an AI-powered answer to the age-old desire to have one more conversation with a deceased loved one, but a recent survey shows most Canadians say they would not turn to these chatbots to heal the pain of losing their partner.
Anthropic said its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three firms during testing after a configuration error gave it internet access, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue-agent episode.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has noticed little patches of “honeycomb-like textures” on Mars several times before, but for a few days in June, it spotted a “sea” of them that stretched as far as the mobile science laboratory could see.
Over the last few months, people have cut down surveillance cameras owned by the company Flock Safety with an electric saw in upstate New York, thrown paint on them in Oakland, California, and rammed a truck into them in Idaho.
Researchers at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, analyzed stone blocks, bricks and ballast from Batavia, a Dutch East India company ship that sunk in 1629. They found that the materials came from multiple quarry sources in Europe, not just one site as previously assumed.
A man from Pincourt, Que., built a social media app to help people escape the endless scroll.
A remarkable set of footprints preserved along the shores of Kenya’s Lake Turkana from more than one million years ago is giving scientists an unusually detailed look at how one of humanity’s extinct relatives may have lived, moved and socialized.
An Alcorn State University professor exposed AI use on a college midterm exam by embedding a hidden word in the assignment, leading to dozens of students failing.
