CNET

I Almost Won My March Madness Pool Last Year Using ChatGPT. So I'm Running It Back

I don't follow college basketball closely, so I turned to ChatGPT for help. Here's how to do it and what to look out for.

You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at 3.0303—which is not 3.14—but it's not terrible for just 100 needles. With ...

I used Google Labs' Portraits to chat with AI motivational speakers — and they gave me the inspirational push I needed

For some reason, an experiment called Portraits caught my eye. Described as “Expert knowledge, delivered by AI Coaches. Starting with a personalized AI-powered coaching experience," I knew I had to ...

Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games

With its Alpha series of game-playing AIs, Google’s DeepMind group seemed to have found a way for its AIs to tackle any game, mastering games like chess and Go by repeatedly playing itself during ...
Scientific American

AI-designed experiments run by robots hint at a new approach to biology

Researchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks showed that an AI model working with an autonomous lab can design and iterate real ...