Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every aspect of our lives. Humans can now ...

A petri dish full of dead bacteria isn’t usually cause for celebration. But for Stanford’s Brian Hie it was a game-changer in his efforts to create synthetic life. The perpetrator was a type of virus ...

Children naturally discover computer sorting algorithms through play, without any instruction, study finds surprisingly.

Computer algorithms have designed highly efficient synthetic enzymes from scratch, with minimal need for tedious hands-on experiments to perfect them. The resulting enzymes catalyse a chemical ...

A key question in artificial intelligence is how often models go beyond just regurgitating and remixing what they have learned and produce truly novel ideas or insights. A new project from Google ...

The polarising impact of social media isn’t just the result of bad algorithms – it is inevitable because of the core components of how the platforms work, a study with AI-generated users has found. It ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story. Geely, a Chinese automaker, is using AI to try and improve the thermal efficiency of its plug-in hybrid system. The AI algorithms used could ...