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April 04, 2023

Happy April! I hope you all made it past the first of the month without falling for too many pranks.    Lately, artificial intelligence breakthroughs have been emerging so quickly that I'm like the dog from Up, but constantly being distracted by AI news instead of squirrels. This week's roundup includes scarily realistic AI-generated images and what ChatGPT's IQ score tells us about intelligence. If you're sick of all things AI, then distract yourself with stories about drone-on-drone warfare and how researchers used an artificial tongue (yuck) to study melting chocolate (yum).

Sophie Bushwick, Associate Editor, Technology @sophiebushwick

Artificial Intelligence How to Tell If a Photo Is an AI-Generated Fake Artificial-intelligence-powered image-generating systems are making fake photographs so hard to detect that we need AI to catch them By Meghan Bartels

Artificial Intelligence AI Is Getting Powerful. But Can Researchers Make It Principled? Can researchers create AI algorithms that are ethical today—and will be safe in the future? By Mordechai Rorvig

Defense Drone-on-Drone Combat in Ukraine Marks a New Era of Aerial Warfare Antidrone technology is combatting “flying IEDs” in the air over Ukraine—with implications beyond the war with Russia By Jason Sherman

Artificial Intelligence AI Chatbots Can Diagnose Medical Conditions at Home. How Good Are They? As more people turn to chat-based AIs for medical advice, it remains to be seen how these tools stack up against—or could complement—human doctors By Sara Reardon

Electronics Could Grinding Up Lithium Batteries Help Recycle Them? Researchers recovered lithium from batteries on a small scale by using mechanical force By Katharine Sanderson,Nature magazine

Biotech Bacterial 'Nanosyringe' Could Deliver Gene Therapy to Human Cells This novel injection system could help advance gene therapy by nimbly inserting gene-editing enzymes into a variety of cell types By Ingrid Wickelgren

Artificial Intelligence I Gave ChatGPT an IQ Test. Here's What I Discovered The chatbot was the ideal test taker—it exhibited no trace of test anxiety, poor concentration or lack of effort. And what about that IQ score? By Eka Roivainen

Food The Science of Melting Chocolate Researchers used an artificial tongue to understand how chocolate changes from a solid to a smooth emulsion By Clara Moskowitz,David Cheney

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 4

QUOTE OF THE DAY "It seems like as AI leaves the research lab and launches fully-flowered into the cultural zeitgeist, promising tantalizing opportunities as well as presenting real-world societal dangers, we're also entering a strange new world of AI power and politics. No longer are AI debates just about technology, or science, or even reality. They are also about opinions, fears, values, attitudes, beliefs, perspectives, resources, incentives and straight-up weirdness." Sharon Goldman, VentureBeat

FROM THE ARCHIVE Clicks, Lies and Videotape Artificial intelligence is making it possible for anyone to manipulate audio and video. The biggest threat is that we stop trusting anything at all By Brooke Borel | October 2018

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