Articles for category: Animal Behavior, Artificial Intelligence

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The Hidden Carbon Cost of AI: What It Takes to Train a Supercomputer Brain

Trizzy Orozco

The world loves to marvel at artificial intelligence—the poetic conversations with chatbots, the dreamy artwork conjured by algorithms, and the jaw-dropping abilities of machines to learn, create, and predict. But behind every headline-grabbing feat of AI, there’s an invisible story unfolding: a story of energy, emissions, and a carbon footprint many never imagined. Picture this: ...

How Ancient Animal Brains Are Inspiring the Next Generation of AI Neural Networks

How Ancient Animal Brains Are Inspiring the Next Generation of AI Neural Networks

Trizzy Orozco

Imagine a world where the brains of long-extinct creatures—tiny insects, ancient fish, even the first animals to crawl onto land—hold the secret blueprints to tomorrow’s most advanced artificial intelligence. It sounds like a wild sci-fi plot twist, but it’s happening right now. As scientists race to build smarter machines, they’re looking backward, not just forward, ...

When AI Gets Creative: The Strange Case of Art-Generating Algorithms That Made Their Own Style

AI Uncovers a Potential Trigger for Alzheimer’s and a Promising Treatment

April Joy Jovita

Artificial intelligence has played a pivotal role in uncovering a potential trigger for Alzheimer’s disease and identifying a promising treatment. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found that an enzyme called phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (PHGDH) may not only serve as a biomarker for Alzheimer’s but could also be a causal factor in the ...

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Can an AI Go Insane? The Strange Behavior of Unsupervised Systems

Maria Faith Saligumba

Picture this: a computer program that suddenly starts “hallucinating” cats in static, or a chatbot that spins wild, nonsensical tales about intergalactic squirrels. It sounds like science fiction—or maybe the beginning of a nightmare. But as artificial intelligence seeps deeper into our daily lives, a strange and unsettling question lingers in the air: Can an ...

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The Time a Machine Learning Model Invented a Bizarre New Sport

Trizzy Orozco

It began with a flicker on a computer screen—a moment so quietly revolutionary that few noticed at first. Scientists had fed thousands of hours of sports footage and countless rulebooks into a powerful machine learning model, hoping to find patterns or maybe invent something new. What they got was not just statistical analysis or improved ...