MIAMI— For nearly 2 years, bustling teams of archaeologists—totaling more than 120 researchers on some days—have excavated a sprawling waterfront lot here in one of this seaside city’s toniest neighborhoods. The diggers have uncovered ancient human remains and some 1 million artifacts that are providing rare insight into a major Native American settlement, known as...
An open letter calling for a pause on the development of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems has divided researchers. Attracting signatures from the likes of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the letter , released early last week, advocates for a 6-month moratorium to give AI companies and regulators time to formulate safeguards to protect...
In February, on an icebreaker off the coast of West Antarctica, Robert Larter, a marine geophysicist with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), came on deck to a startling sight: open gray water as far as the eye could see. There was no ice at all for the ship to break. The next day, satellite surveys would find sea ice around the continent hitting a record low. Unlike...
Wearing an electrode-studded cap, a table tennis player stares down an opponent. This is no flesh-and-blood adversary; the robotic metal barrel across the table fires a ball every few seconds. According to a study published today in eNeuro , the player’s brain reacts differently when going up against a human opponent or the cold, calculating skill of a machine...