Articles for category: Artificial Intelligence

Queer AI.

Can AI Be Queer? Exploring Identity in Artificial Minds

Trizzy Orozco

Picture this: a machine not only understanding us but also questioning its own identity. It’s a wild thought that shakes the foundations of science and art alike. As artificial intelligence becomes more entwined with our daily lives, the question isn’t just what AI can do, but who—if anyone—it can become. Could an artificial mind embrace ...

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AI Predicts the Next Mass Extinction – And It’s Sooner Than You Think

Maria Faith Saligumba

The Earth has witnessed five major mass extinctions in its 4.5-billion-year history, each wiping out 75% or more of all species. Now, artificial intelligence is painting a chilling picture of our planet’s future – and the timeline is more compressed than anyone imagined. Scientists are harnessing machine learning algorithms to analyze patterns spanning millions of ...

Victor Frankenstein: The Godfather of Modern Mad Science

7 Literary Scientists Whose Theories Might Just Be Possible Someday

Trizzy Orozco

What if the wildest ideas from our favorite novels weren’t just the stuff of imagination but blueprints for future breakthroughs? Picture a world where mad science isn’t quite so mad, where fiction bleeds into reality like a watercolor painting in the rain. From time-warping machines to genetic marvels, some literary scientists have dared to dream ...

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5 Rural Towns Powering America’s AI Supercomputing Labs

Maria Faith Saligumba

Picture this: while Silicon Valley grabs all the headlines with its gleaming tech campuses and sky-high real estate prices, some of America’s most powerful artificial intelligence is actually humming away in places where cows outnumber coders and the nearest Starbucks is miles away. These aren’t your typical tech hubs – they’re small rural towns that ...

5 AI Programs Trained on Regional American Accents

Annette Uy

Picture this: you’re talking to your phone, asking for directions, and it completely butchers your request because it can’t understand your Southern drawl or Boston accent. Frustrating, right? Well, artificial intelligence researchers have been working tirelessly to bridge this gap, creating sophisticated programs that can decode the beautiful tapestry of American regional speech patterns. These ...

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: More Than Just Machines

9 Weird AI Experiments That Happened in the U.S.

Trizzy Orozco

What if the boundaries between human imagination and machine logic melted away overnight? Picture a world where artificial intelligence isn’t just making your phone smarter—it’s writing poetry, painting masterpieces, or even recreating the way we dream. In the U.S., researchers, artists, and tech pioneers have dared to unleash AI in ways that are as jaw-dropping ...

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Teaching AI About Gender Diversity: A New Frontier

Maria Faith Saligumba

What if the smartest machines we’ve ever created can’t tell the difference between half the world’s population? Imagine a future where artificial intelligence systems, entrusted with making crucial decisions about jobs, healthcare, and countless aspects of daily life, systematically misunderstand or completely ignore entire communities simply because they never learned to see them properly. This ...

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Should AI Have a Gender? How We Project Identity onto Machines

Maria Faith Saligumba

The question of whether machines should have gender identity has become one of the most fascinating and contentious discussions in our digital age. As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly sophisticated and humanlike, we’re unconsciously assigning gender roles to our technological companions in ways that reveal deep-seated biases about who we are as a society. The implications ...