Send us a link

Subscribe to our newsletter

ERC Board Tells Researchers There's No Hiding Behind AI

ERC Board Tells Researchers There's No Hiding Behind AI

Funder warns researchers of accountability for 'good scientific conduct' in proposals if using artificial intelligence

'ChatGPT Detector' Catches AI-generated Papers with Unprecedented Accuracy

'ChatGPT Detector' Catches AI-generated Papers with Unprecedented Accuracy

Tool based on machine learning uses features of writing style to distinguish between human and AI authors.

Podcast - How Will ChatGPT and Generative AI Transform Research?

Podcast - How Will ChatGPT and Generative AI Transform Research?

Nature editors Nick Petrić Howe, Magdalena Skipper, Richard Van Noorden and Yann Sweeney discuss how generative AIs are impacting science and what the future might hold.

Race to AI: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence, From Turing to ChatGPT

Race to AI: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence, From Turing to ChatGPT

Today's poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming engines

Living Guidelines for Generative AI - Why Scientists Must Oversee Its Use

Living Guidelines for Generative AI - Why Scientists Must Oversee Its Use

Establish an independent scientific body to test and certify generative artificial intelligence, before the technology damages science and public trust.

ChatGPT Use Shows That the Grant-Application System is Broken

ChatGPT Use Shows That the Grant-Application System is Broken

The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It's time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding.

Commission Gears Up to Confront the Risks Generative Artificial Intelligence Poses to Science

Commission Gears Up to Confront the Risks Generative Artificial Intelligence Poses to Science

With generative artificial intelligence poised to take the practice of science by storm, the European Commission is laying the ground to ensure the risks are avoided and the benefits delivered.

AI Tools As Science Policy Advisers? The Potential and the Pitfalls

AI Tools As Science Policy Advisers? The Potential and the Pitfalls

Large language models and other artificial-intelligence systems could be excellent at synthesizing scientific evidence for policymakers - but only with appropriate safeguards and humans in the loop.

Can AI Help to Predict Who Will Win a Nobel Prize?

Can AI Help to Predict Who Will Win a Nobel Prize?

With a few modifications, ChatGPT-like models could enhance the art of identifying future laureates.

Scientists Are Trying to Teach AI How to Smell

Scientists Are Trying to Teach AI How to Smell

A team from the US taught a neural network how to map and describe popular smells, with the hopes of digitizing them someday.

Riding the Whirlwind: BMJ's Policy on Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Publishing

Riding the Whirlwind: BMJ's Policy on Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Publishing

BMJ will consider content created with artificial intelligence only if the use is clearly described and reasonable Artificial intelligence (AI) can rival human knowledge, accuracy, speed, and choices when carrying out tasks. The latest generative AI tools are trained on large quantities of data and use machine learning techniques such as logical reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, and natural language processing. They can produce text, code, and other media such as graphics, images, audio, or video. Large language models (LLMs), which are a form of AI, are able to search, extract, generate, summarise, translate, and rewrite text or code rapidly. They can answer complex questions (called prompts) at search engine speeds that the human mind cannot match. AI is transforming our world, and we are not yet fully able to comprehend or harness its power. It is a whirlwind sweeping up all before it. Availability of LLMs such as ChatGPT, and growing awareness of their capabilities, is challenging many industries, including academic publishing. The potential benefits for content creation are clear, such as the …

Commission's Research Directorate to Develop a New Artificial Intelligence in Science Policy

Commission's Research Directorate to Develop a New Artificial Intelligence in Science Policy

The European Commission is to add a new unit with a brief to set down guidelines for the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in science, according to a leak on the upcoming restructuring of the research and innovation directorate general, DG RTD.

If AI Becomes Conscious: Here's How Researchers Will Know

If AI Becomes Conscious: Here's How Researchers Will Know

Many researchers say that AI systems aren’t yet at the point of consciousness, but that the pace of AI evolution has got them pondering: how would we know if they were? A checklist derived from six neuroscience-based theories could aid in the assessment. 

Allow Patents on AI-generated Inventions - for the Good of Science

Allow Patents on AI-generated Inventions - for the Good of Science

The current global mishmash of rules on whether innovations made using artificial intelligence are patentable impedes AI-rich fields such as drug discovery.

Use of AI Is Seeping Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect

Use of AI Is Seeping Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect

Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there's no foolproof way to catch it all yet.

Governance of AI in Bio: Harnessing the Benefits While Reducing the Risks

Governance of AI in Bio: Harnessing the Benefits While Reducing the Risks

To develop an overarching framework that includes addressing bio-related risks, Congress, federal agencies, and non-governmental AI stakeholders must work together.

Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence

Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence

Scientists Used ChatGPT to Generate an Entire Paper from Scratch - But Is It Any Good?

Scientists Used ChatGPT to Generate an Entire Paper from Scratch - But Is It Any Good?

Scientists have produced a research paper in less than an hour with the help of ChatGPT - but researchers say that there are many hurdles to overcome before the tool can be truly helpful.

No, GPT-4 Cannot Get a Computer Science Degree at MIT

No, GPT-4 Cannot Get a Computer Science Degree at MIT

Also: OpenAI to open a new office in London, and why the FTC has its eye on the generative AI market

GPT-3 (Dis)Informs Us Better than Humans

GPT-3 (Dis)Informs Us Better than Humans

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we create and evaluate information, and this is happening during an infodemic, which has been having marked effects on global health.

European Research Integrity Code Updated to Reflect Advances in Artificial Intelligence

European Research Integrity Code Updated to Reflect Advances in Artificial Intelligence

A new version of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity has been published that includes guidance on artificial intelligence (AI), navigating EU data protection laws and how to approach changes to research impact assessments.

An EU Landmark for AI Governance

An EU Landmark for AI Governance

A groundbreaking draft law adopted with overwhelming majority by the European Parliament provides a glimpse into the future of governance of artificial intelligence.

EU and US Hatch Transatlantic Plan to Rein in ChatGPT

EU and US Hatch Transatlantic Plan to Rein in ChatGPT

The EU is calling on companies to join an international push to self-regulate generative artificial intelligence (AI) products such as ChatGPT, the chatbot launched last November that can write essays, engage in philosophical conversations and write computer code.