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Representational embeddings inferred from human and DNN behavior. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-025-01041-7 While humans concentrate on the meaning of objects, artificial intelligence focuses on visual characteristics. "These dimensions represent various properties of objects, ranging from purely visual aspects, like 'round' or 'white,' to more semantic properties, like 'animal-related' or 'fire-related,' with many dimensi

Credit: Patricia Bozan from Pexels Visitors to France's famed Palace of Versailles can now strike up a conversation with talking statues instead of listening to a traditional audio guide, as part of a new collaboration with artificial intelligence companies, the palace has said. Versailles late Monday announced a partnership with US-based OpenAI and French start-up Ask Mona to bring a modern AI touch to the iconic 17th-century palace. Curious visitors can

With a few tricks, AI models can also run on low-resource devices. Credit: Lunghammer—TU Graz Artificial intelligence is considered to be computationally and energy-intensive—a challenge for the Internet of Things (IoT), where small, embedded sensors have to make do with limited computing power, little memory and small batteries. In the E-MINDS project, a research team from the COMET K1 center Pro2Future, Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and the Uni

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to "intelligent machines and algorithms that can reason and adapt based on sets of rules and environments which mimic human intelligence." This field is evolving rapidly and the education sector, for one, is abuzz with discussion on AI use for writing. This matters not just for academics, but for anyone relying on trustworthy information, from journalists and policymakers to educators and the pu

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence is everywhere lately—on the news, in podcasts and around every water cooler. A new, buzzy term, artificial general intelligence (AGI), is dominating conversations and raising more questions than it answers. So, what is AGI? Will it replace jobs or unlock solutions to the world's biggest challenges? Will it align with societal priorities or redefine them? Is our future more "The Jetsons" or "The Term

Teams compete using the T1 robots from Booster Robotics during the inaugural RoBoLeague robot soccer competition held in Beijing, Saturday, June 28, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan While China's men's soccer team hasn't generated much excitement in recent years, humanoid robot teams have won over fans in Beijing based more on the AI technology involved than any athletic prowess shown. Four teams of humanoid robots faced off in fully autonomous 3-on-3 so

Credit: AI-generated image In documenting and recording society's collective data on an unprecedented scale, artificial intelligence is becoming humanity's historian—changing the way we record information for posterity. But AI's inadvertent role as memory-keeper raises profound concerns for today's historians. Unlike human historians who explicitly document their methodologies, AI systems are creating the historical archives of the future without crucial t

Credit: Hongchi Xia Cornell researchers have developed an AI-powered process that automatically transforms a short video of a room into an interactive, 3D simulation of the space. Inside this highly accurate "digital twin," users can open drawers and cabinets and handle objects on the countertop. The technology can be used to develop more realistic video games and virtually train robots to operate within a specific real-world space—essentially any applicat

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast-moving body using the world's most powerful telescopes. It was found to be one quarter mile (400m) long and very elongated—perhaps 10 times as long as it was wide. Researchers named it 'Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "scout." 'Oumuamua was later confirmed to be the first object from another star known to h

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged by hospitality companies to meet or even exceed customers' expectations, according to a framework proposed by researchers in the Penn State School of Hospitality Management. The research team used the gap model, which explores ways to improve customer service, to provide a framework for how the hospitality industry can apply AI in balance with needs like catalyzing efficiency,

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign aerospace engineering professor Melkior Ornik lecturing in his AE 353: Aerospace Control Systems class. Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign With the assumption that students are going to use artificial intelligence and large language models such as ChatGPT to do their homework, researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-C

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Honeybees are essential pollinators for agriculture and natural ecosystems. Stressors like climate change, habitat loss and pesticide exposure threaten their ability to forage for pollen, a critical resource for colony survival. Researchers in Environmental Science & Technology demonstrate that an artificial intelligence (AI)-based monitoring system combined with a computer model can link the exposure of neonicotinoid pes

Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels A new study from the University of Kansas explores the role of working memory in word problem-solving for students with and without math difficulties. Researchers found that using interventions to improve working memory can potentially benefit students who struggle with math. Working memory is a limited amount of information humans can store while processing other information and executing other tasks. It plays a cen

The sticker-like patch tracks a range of physiological responses, such as skin temperature, humidity, heart rate and blood oxygen levels, that are associated with emotional states. Credit: Yangbo Yuan / Penn State Saying one thing while feeling another is part of being human, but bottling up emotions can have serious psychological consequences, such as anxiety or panic attacks. To help health care providers tell the difference, a team led by scientists at

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Australia just sweltered through one of its hottest summers on record, and heat has pushed well into autumn. Once-in-a-generation floods are now striking with alarming regularity. As disasters escalate, insurers are warning some properties may soon be uninsurable. Yet, despite these escalating disasters—and a federal election looming—conversation around climate change remains deeply polarizing. But are people's minds real