I was struck by this passage in a story titled “Could A.I.-Powered Robot ‘Companions’ Combat Human Loneliness?” about work that researchers at Auckland, Duke and Cornell Universities are ...

According to Adobe, the Firefly Image 2 Model, as it’s officially called, will be better at rendering humans, for example, including facial features, skin, body and hands (which have long vexed ...

Sue Halpern on the technological evolution of humanoid robots, and the tech companies helming these humanistic A.I. advancements.

A provocative paper from researchers at Microsoft claims A.I. technology shows the ability to understand the way people do. Critics say those scientists are kidding themselves.

The A.I. generated a convincing human figure but had trouble producing a specific hand gesture that the author had in mind, so Nightingale brought on a freelance human artist to paint them into ...

And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

The Hague’s Mauritshuis museum may have loaned out its greatest treasure, Girl With a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), to a once-in-a-lifetime Johannes Vermeer exhibition up the coast, but that doesn ...

AI art is suddenly everywhere. We created a quiz to see whether you can spot the difference between human- and robot-generated images.

Sudowrite and Dall-E use machine learning to produce astonishingly serviceable text and images in a flash. What does that mean for stodgy old human beings?

Other countries put less emphasis on the necessity of human authorship for protection. A judge in Australia ruled last year A.I.-created inventions can qualify for patent protection.

Experts say the rise of artificial intelligence will make most people better off over the next decade, but many have concerns about how advances in AI will affect what it means to be human, to be ...